States May Ban Credit Checks on Job Applicants

Memphis Daily News ^ | 03/01/2010 | Memphis Daily News

[RFEngineer]

“There is no reason for this type of totalitarian insight. “

Exactly. Everyone should be assigned a job, because if you let employers choose to hire employees on some objective basis, that would be bad.

[RFEngineer]

“The way I see it, if a company is stupid enough to reject somebody because of their credit history, they have the right to make that mistake.”

They do and they will. It is the way it should be.

[mombonn]

His backup check was to have a look at how the applicants care for their cars.

I talked with a landlord once who told me he also evaluated potential tenants by how well they took care of their teeth.

[packrat35]

It wasn’t full of trash but it wasn’t neat either.

[The Duke]

The way I see it, if a company is stupid enough to reject somebody because of their credit history, they have the right to make that mistake. A wise company would take other factors into account, and even allow the applicant to explain the reasons for the bad credit, and would be willing to weigh in mitigating factors.

That's prettu much how I see it as well.