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H.R. 3149, The Equal Employment for All Act (6 comments ↓)
H.R. 3149 would amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit the use of consumer credit checks against prospective and current employees for the purposes of making adverse employment decisions.
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Bob Wright
August 8, 2009, 6:06am (report abuse)The Equal Employment for All Act (H.R. 3149) is extremely important as it will make it illegal for companies to nose into Consumers Credit files in order to determine if they have good character. Financial companies will be exempt.
With the recession or depression - or whatever you want to call it - raging on, many trustworthy people are losing their homes, and credit.
No longer should these trustworthy people caught up in hard times have to worry about being denied a job for that reason.
Let employers hire people based on merit not any other reason. Please encourage your congressman to vote Yay on this bill. Thank you!
Lee
August 20, 2009, 4:53pm (report abuse)The Epual Employment for All Act is a bill that is long overdue.
A person's credit rating or credit score should not be used to determine wether or not a person gets a job.
That is an invasion of a person's privacy.
This is one bill that when voted on and passed should take effect immediately.
Fed Up
August 31, 2009, 3:51pm (report abuse)It is unbelievable it took this long for the government to recognize the financial discrimination pre-employment credit checking is.
Another way to keep people down.
Fix it.
KAM1762
September 25, 2009, 11:59am (report abuse)Any news on this bill? No one will be getting any jobs if this isn't passed!
Single Mom
October 14, 2009, 8:48pm (report abuse)Im a single mom of 2 and have gaurdianship of my nephew but yet im not responsible enough to be hired cause of my credit score, No one knows my life store weather i've been ill, major surgery, Major child illness, so come on how is anyone supposed to live if we now have on more way to discriminate against those whos bill have gone ary, Not only do I have 19 yrs exp, a college degree and references that some would die to have but I also HAVE NO JOB and was just turned down after bein told they wanted me for a job that would have helped me and my family become more finallialy secure. PLZ fiz this soon.
Andy
(logged in user) November 25, 2009, 2:27am (report abuse)Great bill what's the latest?