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Home | News | Maryland senators work to prohibit employers’ credit checks

Sens. Mike Lenett (D-Md.) and Catherine Pugh (D-Md.) are sponsoring legislation they hope will prevent many employers from performing credit checks on job applicants, according to The Baltimore Sun.

Lenett says several unemployed residents have told him they were not hired for jobs because they had poor credit histories, which he considers an "all-time Catch-22" in the current economy because the people who most likely are having a hard time paying bills are those who have lost jobs and are looking for new ones.

The legislation proposed by the senators would exclude certain types of positions where they say a credit check could be relevant for employers who are hiring.

1/26/2010

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