Employer company deletion

Company admins on the employer portal can delete their company from your board. Delete is a content action (the company and its jobs leave the board), not the same as deleting a login.

This is on by default because many employers expect to remove a company they no longer want listed. You can turn it off. Password change, email change, and account deletion have no matching toggle.

Turn employer company deletion on or off

1. Go to Settings in your dashboard sidebar
2. Open the Features tab
3. Under employers, toggle Employer company deletion

The setting saves immediately. Off hides the delete control from employers and rejects the API call with company_deletion_disabled. Existing companies are unchanged.

What the employer sees

On the company profile edit form, an admin sees a danger zone. The confirm dialog warns how many other approved members and how many live jobs will be affected. Only an admin can delete. A member does not get the control.

Deleting a company:

• Soft-deletes the company and cascades to its jobs, the same cascade your operator delete uses
• Writes a domain exclusion (reason employer_deleted) so backfill and aggregation cannot resurrect it
• Deregisters scraping for that company
• Emails you, the operator

This is different from the Delete button on a company in your dashboard. Operator delete also removes the company and its jobs, but it does not write that employer-deleted exclusion or send the employer-deletion notification. See Edit company profile.

Aggregation will not re-add it

After an employer deletes a company, automated job aggregation will not recreate that company from the same website domain. The exclusion stays until you re-add the company: create it in Companies, import it, or start backfill for that employer yourself. That operator re-add clears the matching domain exclusion. An employer cannot permanently veto a company you choose to list.

Operator notification

Cavuno sends a system email to board owners: the company name, how many live jobs were deleted, and the employer address that did it. This mail is sent by Cavuno, not from your board's email editor, and is not a customizable board template.

Control it under Settings → Notifications → Employer company deletions. It is on by default.

Availability

• Plan: All paid plans. Requires employer accounts.
• Setting: Settings, then Features, then "Employer company deletion." Default on.
• Setup required: None.

Limitations

• Only a company admin can delete the company. Team roles are admin or member, and a company always has at least one admin.
• Deleting a company deletes its jobs. That cannot be undone from the employer portal.
• Account deletion never deletes companies. If you need the company gone, an admin must delete the company (when this toggle is on), or you delete it from the dashboard.

Verify employer company deletion

With the toggle on, sign in as a company admin, open the company profile, and confirm the danger zone is present. Cancel the dialog once to check the member and job counts, then delete a throwaway company and confirm it leaves the public directory and your Companies list. Confirm the operator email arrives (or that the Notifications toggle is on). Turn the feature off and confirm the danger zone disappears for the same admin. After an employer delete, confirm a backfill of that domain does not recreate the company until you add it again yourself.

Example

Acme's admin deletes Acme from the employer portal while three jobs are live. Candidates no longer see Acme or those jobs. You receive "Acme and its 3 jobs were deleted by employer x@acme.example." A later aggregation pass skips acme.example. If you still want Acme listed, you add the company again from Companies, which clears the exclusion.

Next steps

Explain Employer team access so employers know who can delete. For a person who only wants to leave, point them to Account settings instead of company delete.