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What’S In A Form? Employment Background Checks Under The Fair Credit Reporting Act, Emily Scace
What’S In A Form? Employment Background Checks Under The Fair Credit Reporting Act, Emily Scace
Connecticut Law Review
For employers, background checks, credit checks, and similar measures are a prudent step to guard against negligent hiring claims and other potential losses that can result from poor hiring decisions. But these practices necessarily require employees to relinquish some of their interests in privacy and may also introduce bias into the hiring process. The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which applies to many of these employment screening measures, requires employers to follow certain procedural requirements that seek to ensure that employees and applicants understand the scope of the information that will be sought in a background or credit check, provide …