When the results of the credit report came in several days later, Meaux says she was promptly fired and escorted off the premises.
The last few days have seen a number of articles written about the effects of credit checks on employment. When unemployment last a few weeks, the financial drain can seriously damage a credit rating. When the kind of unemployment we have now is the norm, people are often unemployed for months or years. That is devastating to a credit rating.
So, allowing businesses to use credit ratings as a screening technique rules out the unemployed as potential hires.
Wasn’t that a great idea! What don’t we look at their DNA and see if they might have long term problems? Why don’t we go look at their kids grades? Isn’t that a sign of how good a person is? What about relatives? political beliefs? voting habits?
Why do we as a people allow credit ratings (run by three major companies) to determine so much about our lives?
Tell me something. Is it worse to have a criminal record or a bad credit rating?
You can get a criminal record expunged.
It’s time to stop the practice of background credit checks for employment.
(And for that matter, allowing employers to require you provide your medical records, is another thing that should disappear.)
James Pilant
In survey after survey, including a recent MSNBC survey, more than 90 percent of Americans say that workplace discrimination based upon someone’s personal credit report is wrong and should be illegal. ZERO statistical evidence exists to tie bad credit reports to fraud! It’s already illegal in 3 states and HR3149: The Equal Employment for All Act would make it illegal in every state, but most Americans don’t even know the legislation exists. Please support the overwhelming will of the people and the rights of highly qualified American workers to compete on a level playing field during this horrible economic disaster. Join our FB PAG at: http://groups.to/h.r.3149 or shoot us an e-mail at hr3149@hotmail.com with”sign me up” in the subject line.
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