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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Of course they’re calling for an end to it.
Credit checks are way too accurate of a proxy for a “character check”.
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.
Credit checks generally offer an unbiased picture of what kind of person you are dealing with.
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?
Everytime they make it harder for employers to judge the quality of applications, they increase the incentive to automate the jobs away.
As do I. However, if you're going for a position in accounting......I would think it's probably ok, IMHO.
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.
In a world where some companies did not enter a negative comment every time you did not pay early, this would be true.
Why is it that accurate measures of quality of employee are nearly universally condemned as “racist”?
/rhet
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.
What?
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.
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.
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.
No.
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
or who steal from them.
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