Employers: End the credit checks!

G'day Everyone.

I'm just back on the blog after a short break. But Jamie Berke sent me some interesting posting about what's being reported in the New York Times

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/business/07credit.html?_r=1

If companies that interview you and then make a tender offer of a job to you and then pull it before you had a chance to say: "I accept", you can bet that they looked at your credit history. It is pure madness that even if our work experiences and our credit history has become to say to employers " If you are NOT PERFECT, WE DON'T WANT YOU!" We should be given a chance to defend our credit history. Even if it means to file a notice of a lawsuit and tell these companies to STOP using credit history as a way to DENY a job to a jobless applicant. Could these companies find out that we're deaf and handicapped? It wouldn't surprise me. After all, we have our debts of school loans and our attendance of schools.

It seems to me that companies are only taking the best and debit less people for work. But one thing is, if this practice of using credit checks over work histories and references, someone going to go the full mile of a lawsuit one day and make sure it reaches the high court. If it ever does, thousands of people will join it for a class action lawsuit against employers.

Today, I make a personal plea to employers: STOP USING CREDIT CHECKS ON APPLICANTS! I think it insults everyone in this age of economic downturns because they need a job in order to get their debts paid..

By the time the economics picks up, people will be fighting for work. Expect a huge mob of people at every job fair of every hearing and disabled people.

If employers only take the best, then by the time 10 years passes, what will most of do with out work? Don't ask me. Employers will take the most blame.

I hope employers will go back to depend on references and employment checks. We need jobs and employment more than being turned down in our credit history.

Semper FI.