National coalition calls on TransUnion to stop its sale of credit reports to employers due to their discriminatory impact!

In state legislatures across the country, TransUnion has led the credit reporting industry in defending the use of credit reports in employment.

Now, the following groups have called on TransUnion to change course by stopping its sale of credit reports to employers:

AFL-CIO American Association of People with Disabilities Center for Community Change Center for Economic Justice Community Service Society of New York Consumer Action Consumer Watchdog International Brotherhood of Teamsters Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Legal Action Center MALDEF National Association of Consumer Advocates National Consumer Law Center (on behalf of its low-income clients) National Council of La Raza

National Employment Law Project National Fair Housing Alliance National Immigration Law Center National Organization for Women Poverty & Race Research Action Council Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Public Citizen Public Justice Center Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law Southern Christian Leadership Conference UNITE HERE U.S. PIRG Women Employed World Privacy Forum

Download a copy of the letter here.

Join these groups by taking action here.

See the press weigh in:

• TransUnion’s Credit Data Sale Hurts Unemployed, Groups Say, Bloomberg, 10/11/11

• Civil Rights, Labor Advocates Demand End to Employment Credit Checks, Huffington Post, 10/11/2011

• Civil Rights Leaders Seek to Stop Credit Report Usage In Hiring, BET, 10/12/11

• Group Calls on TransUnion to Stop Selling Credit Reports to Employers, Credit.com, 10/11/11

• Why Credit History Shouldn’t Be Used in Hiring Decisions, In These Times, 10/13/11

 

4 Reasons to Restrict Credit Checks in Employment

Credit Checks in Hiring are a Catch-22 For American Workers Credit Checks Have a Discriminatory Impact on People of Color Credit Checks Don’t Predict Job Performance Credit Reports are Inaccurate

 

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