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Democratic senators push for end to pre-employment credit checks ("women and minorities")
http://www.pottsmerc.com ^ | December 18, 2013 | Danielle Douglas

Posted on 12/18/2013 12:06:42 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

WASHINGTON — Hank Ronan knew he would get the job. He had sailed through three rounds of interviews and hit it off with the doctors at the diagnostic center in Annandale, Va., where he had applied to be a driver for $11 an hour.

Shuttling patients to appointments was a world away from his 20 years as a software engineer, but it was the best that Ronan could find after being laid off in 2011. He was eager to get back to work and granted the doctor’s office permission to run a credit check. Ronan never heard back, he said Tuesday in an interview.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: badeconomy; classism; credit; edmarkey; racism; sexism; unemployment; warren
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Credit checks are now sexist. Get ready for 2016.
1 posted on 12/18/2013 12:06:42 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Of course they’re calling for an end to it.
Credit checks are way too accurate of a proxy for a “character check”.


2 posted on 12/18/2013 12:08:55 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I actually agree with this. The economy has been really hard on people and decimated their credit ratings. As long as the work history is good and referecnes check out, I see no reason why credit checks should be done.


3 posted on 12/18/2013 12:08:59 PM PST by CityCenter (Resist Obamacare!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Credit checks generally offer an unbiased picture of what kind of person you are dealing with.


4 posted on 12/18/2013 12:09:43 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: CityCenter

Then wouldn’t it be up to the employer to use his own discretion about how much weight to give the credit check,

and not up to the government to disallow it?


5 posted on 12/18/2013 12:10:00 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Everytime they make it harder for employers to judge the quality of applications, they increase the incentive to automate the jobs away.


6 posted on 12/18/2013 12:10:55 PM PST by rbg81
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To: CityCenter
I actually agree with this

As do I. However, if you're going for a position in accounting......I would think it's probably ok, IMHO.

7 posted on 12/18/2013 12:11:04 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: CityCenter

Um, yea it does make sense especially if the position is handling money in any way, OR a security position where the person can be bribed for telling secrets.


8 posted on 12/18/2013 12:11:12 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: BenLurkin

In a world where some companies did not enter a negative comment every time you did not pay early, this would be true.


9 posted on 12/18/2013 12:12:54 PM PST by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: rbg81

Why is it that accurate measures of quality of employee are nearly universally condemned as “racist”?

/rhet


10 posted on 12/18/2013 12:13:30 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: CityCenter

Also, it should be up to the employer to give checks or not based on their business needs and wants and their experience with hiring and keeping employees. The Jackasses Of The Hill have no right to make yet another federal law blanketing business. And make no mistake all the huge corporations will be on board with this because it’ll hurt the small and medium size business who can’t fight back or don’t have enough money and clout to lobby for loopholes like big business.


11 posted on 12/18/2013 12:15:09 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Ingtar

What?


12 posted on 12/18/2013 12:17:04 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

People are losing one of the most personal things they have; their choice for their own health and doctor, yet these asshat libtards on the hill are still pissing in the wind over stuff like this.
The left never stops; evil doesn’t take a break.


13 posted on 12/18/2013 12:17:12 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: ConservativeStatement
How about if the state just does the hiring for you?
14 posted on 12/18/2013 12:17:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: BenLurkin
Yes and no. Criminal background checks, I can see, especially when issues of safety and money handling are involved.

Credit checks are OK on a certain level depending on the job. You don't want someone with really bad credit as a comptroller, understandably.

But driving patients to and from doctor appointments-- I fail to see any relevance. This is an ENTRY LEVEL job which doesn't even involve handling cash.

And the number of people who have had their credit messed up by the ObaMao economy are legion. Mine went from the mid-800s to the high to mid-600s and I'm one of the lucky ones who just had too many bills to juggle and a few health issues. The last time I was out of work was for two months in 2002.

15 posted on 12/18/2013 12:18:04 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: snarkytart

Big corps will find it easier to tuck the odd characters in some place where they can’t do any damage,

but a startup can’t afford to have 1/2 of its workforce made up of people who make poor decisions.


16 posted on 12/18/2013 12:18:40 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: CityCenter
So a few hundred lawyers in congress should be able to substitute their aggregate opinion of employee hiring dynamics for that of millions of employers?

No.

17 posted on 12/18/2013 12:18:57 PM PST by Jacquerie (Circle your calendar. Mark Levin on C-Span Booknotes, Sunday January 5th at noon eastern.)
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“No one should be denied the chance to compete for a job because of a credit report that bears no relationship to job performance,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,

Well, looky who's behind this! The make-believe injun herself, Ms. Fauxcahontas. Yup. I can understand why she and her cronies oppose certain background inquiries.
18 posted on 12/18/2013 12:19:08 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Employers don’t want to hire people...esp out of work Americans...makes it easier to push for Illegal Alien Amnesty and cheap foreign labor.

I could see a credit check on someone handling money directly...but not for a driver


19 posted on 12/18/2013 12:19:37 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Einstein was right)
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To: MrB

or who steal from them.


20 posted on 12/18/2013 12:20:19 PM PST by snarkytart
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