Old statute put to new use in challenging screening practices
There has been an uptick in class actions over employment screening practices that use consumer reports as grounds for making decisions about job applicants or employees.
The weapon of choice for lawyers who represent employees is a statute that has been around for years but is just beginning to be used in the employment context.
The Fair Credit [...]
Source: New England In-House
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table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 style=vertical-align:top;trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif/font/tdtd valign=top font style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbr /div style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1 //divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tamp;fd=Ramp;usg=AFQjCNEZbHOJqeL7kl5sqyN6yQZRACK0SQamp;url=http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/05/15/chat-transcript.htmlbCredit-report errors? Read expert#39;s advice/b/abr /font size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fColumbus Dispatch/font/b/fontbr /font size=-1As reported in The Dispatch more than two years ago in this article, Godsey laments that it has become exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to obtain bpublic records/b that officials claim are shielded from disclosure as long as prisoners#39; cases are b.../b/fontbr /font size=-1 class=p/fontbr /font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1amp;ned=usamp;ncl=d5pUVj2Ys2HNNxMnobrband morenbsp;raquo;/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table