Comments on: Breaking News: Amendment to the FCRA Introduced to the House http://blog.employeescreen.com/2009/07/10/breaking-news-amendment-to-the-fcra-introduced-to-the-house/ Background Checks Pre-Employment Screening Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:25:52 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: JJ http://blog.employeescreen.com/2009/07/10/breaking-news-amendment-to-the-fcra-introduced-to-the-house/comment-page-1/#comment-4134 JJ Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:17:31 +0000 http://blog.employeescreen.com/?p=2241#comment-4134 I agree with the comment above. I sincerely hope the Equal Employment for All Act passes. Sure, credit checks might be useful in some cases, but often it's ridiculous to expect good credit to be correlated with good job performance. Further, credit checks often put potential employees in a catch-22. If they don't have a job, they are more likely to have poor credit and thus more likely to remain unemployed. People of color on average have lower credit, making this a discriminatory practice. Not to mention that credit reports more often than not contain inaccuracies. If you would like to help us stop the often unfair and discriminatory practice of pre-employment credit checks, please join us. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98502858415 http://www.creditcatch22.org/ Jason, this language of this bill already ensures that employers hiring for job categories where a credit check is appropriate will still be allowed to use a credit check. I agree with the comment above.

I sincerely hope the Equal Employment for All Act passes. Sure, credit checks might be useful in some cases, but often it’s ridiculous to expect good credit to be correlated with good job performance. Further, credit checks often put potential employees in a catch-22. If they don’t have a job, they are more likely to have poor credit and thus more likely to remain unemployed. People of color on average have lower credit, making this a discriminatory practice. Not to mention that credit reports more often than not contain inaccuracies.

If you would like to help us stop the often unfair and discriminatory practice of pre-employment credit checks, please join us.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98502858415

http://www.creditcatch22.org/

Jason, this language of this bill already ensures that employers hiring for job categories where a credit check is appropriate will still be allowed to use a credit check.

]]> By: Dawn Bush http://blog.employeescreen.com/2009/07/10/breaking-news-amendment-to-the-fcra-introduced-to-the-house/comment-page-1/#comment-4112 Dawn Bush Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:42:50 +0000 http://blog.employeescreen.com/?p=2241#comment-4112 I am a single mother of three children who was left with a mountain of bills when my husband and I separated and divorced. I have been going to school for nearly four years now, with another two years to go (including internship)to better my future and that of my children. I chose a field that would prove to be not only interesting, but financially sound for the rest of my life. I find it disturbing that ANY employer would hold an individual's debt as a determining factor of employment. This act would help some people in certain situations, but section three of this bill certainly will not help me, when I am attending college for a career in Economic Crime Investigation, where agencies (local and federal government) can still deny you a job based on your credit history. How am I suppose to pay off the bills that I OWE and live and support my children in trying to make a better life for us if provisions are going to keep me from becoming successful? This makes absolutely no sense to me and is very discouraging and frustrating. I am a single mother of three children who was left with a mountain of bills when my husband and I separated and divorced. I have been going to school for nearly four years now, with another two years to go (including internship)to better my future and that of my children. I chose a field that would prove to be not only interesting, but financially sound for the rest of my life. I find it disturbing that ANY employer would hold an individual’s debt as a determining factor of employment. This act would help some people in certain situations, but section three of this bill certainly will not help me, when I am attending college for a career in Economic Crime Investigation, where agencies (local and federal government) can still deny you a job based on your credit history. How am I suppose to pay off the bills that I OWE and live and support my children in trying to make a better life for us if provisions are going to keep me from becoming successful? This makes absolutely no sense to me and is very discouraging and frustrating.

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