A coalition of more than 60 labor, civil rights, community and student groups today called on the New York City Council to pass Intro. 857, the Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act, which would ban credit checks by employers in NYC. (more…)
A coalition of more than 50 labor, civil rights, and community groups today called on the New York City Council to pass Intro. 857, the Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act, which would ban credit checks by employers in NYC. (more…)
December 21, 2012
Carolers donning Santa hats gathered this morning outside the New York offices of Experian, the nation’s largest credit bureau, to sing holiday songs with lyrics altered to highlight the harmful use of people’s credit information in hiring and firing, and job promotion. To the tune of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” the carolers sang, “You better watch out, when you apply / for that job, I’m telling you why / Credit checks are bringing us down!” (more…)
October, 16, 2012
Students from more than a dozen colleges and universities gathered today outside the Borough of Manhattan Community College to call on the NYC Council to ban credit checks by employers, which they said constitute an unfair barrier to jobs for students saddled with student loan debt.
