Learn what benefits you may have from a previous employer.

"It was the mentality," she said of her previous employer.

One previous employer kept her at the minimum wage for five years.

He had landed a job running a company despite being fired by his previous employer.

She had arrived with references from her previous employer, a local law firm.

Q. How common is it to want to return to a previous employer?

In other cases, previous employers cannot be tracked down because they no longer exist.

The previous employer will not need to give forms P45 to the employees.

A previous employer shut down with no notice, leaving him without two weeks' back pay.

We haven't gotten to Johnson's husband yet, or to her previous employer.