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- BUSINESS, Page 78Business NotesEMPLOYEE RIGHTSBig Brother Comes Clean
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- Your resume was impressive. The job interview was flawless.
- You seemed to have that tempting new position in your pocket --
- but you didn't get it.
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- What happened? Your prospective employer may have checked
- out your credit record. According to the Federal Trade
- Commission, employers are increasingly using credit reports as
- an easy -- and perhaps too facile -- means of ascertaining a job
- applicant's "honesty and personal integrity." Yet companies are
- required by law to inform job applicants if their credit record
- played a role in their rejection and to identify the source of
- the negative information. Many employers fail to follow that
- law, but the FTC is cracking down. Last week four companies,
- including St. Louis-based aerospace giant McDonnell Douglas and
- New York retailer Macy's, settled FTC charges that they failed
- to tell passed-over applicants their credit records had been
- examined. The companies agreed to give rejected job applicants
- the names and addresses of the credit agencies that may have
- been consulted.
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