The Unfair Use of Credit Reports and Criminal Records and the EEOC E-Race Initiative
According to an article in HR Morning, the two biggest headaches for employers when it comes to hiring are the blanket exclusion of individuals with poor credit histories or a criminal, record, and not showing a correlation between background checks and the job itself. The author notes that in response to seeing an increase in claims of [...]
Categories: Automated Decision Making, Best Practices, credit reports, Discrimination, EEOC, Recent Posts, Small and Medium Businesses, Trends Tags: background, check, criminal, employment, national
2010 Trend on Increased focus on whether credit reports and criminal records are discriminatory
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend One: Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a leading national online employment screening background firm, is releasing the ESR “Third Annual Top Ten Trends in the Pre-Employment Background Screening Industry” for 2010. ESR has identified new trends that are starting to make a difference, as well as old trends that have evolved as the screening [...]
Categories: Best Practices, credit reports, Criminal Records, Discrimination, Recent Posts, Trends Tags: background, check, criminal, employment, national, online, public, safety, warrant
Job Hunting and Credit Reports
For some reason, there are individuals and groups bent on scaring job applicants about credit reports by spreading miss-information that is just plain wrong. Whether these people are just not well informed, or have their own agenda to push, the fact remains that job applicants are under enough stress without having to worry about things [...]
Categories: Advice for Job Applicants, credit reports, employment screening, Recent Posts Tags: background, check, employment, free
Unjustified fears about Credit Scores and employment
A news release on the web today from a firm that apparently engages in credit repair uses the myth that credit scores are used for employment as an apparent marketing tactic. The press article indicates that a national recognized credit score except say, “…millions of Americans are in for a shock when it comes to applying [...]
Categories: credit reports, Recent Posts Tags: background, check, employment, national
New EEOC lawsuit for discrimination based on credit report and criminal records
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced on October 1, 2009 that they have filed a lawsuit against Freeman, a firm that offers nationwide convention services, on the basis that it used credit reports and criminal records to unfairly discriminate against black, Hispanic and male job applicants. This case has the potential to have a [...]
Categories: Best Practices, credit reports, Criminal Records, Discrimination, EEOC, Recent Posts, Title VII Tags: check, company, criminal, employment, free, national