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- <text id=91TT2337>
- <title>
- Oct. 21, 1991: Business Notes:Employee Rights
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 21, 1991 Sex, Lies & Politics
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 78
- Business Notes
- EMPLOYEE RIGHTS
- Big Brother Comes Clean
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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