i was offered a job at the hospital and they said they wanted to run a credit check?
why do they do that ?
What are they looking for?
I have one bill in collections which has a duplicate- any one know what i can do?
the collection amt is $567.00 -which i just paid. i settled with the creditor and they said it will show up on my credit report i 30-90 days. its a AT&T bill long ago
I think a lot depends on how badly you want this particular job, and how much they need you.
Personally, I refuse to allow a credit check for employment. As long as my job doesn't involve handling money (or other negotiable valuables) I don't feel that my credit rating is any of their business. I've consented to employment history, criminal background checks and urine drug screens, but this is where I personally draw the line.
This topic has come up repeatedly as a traveler,but Ihaven't been unemployed in the last 25 years. If they don't agree, I'm on to the next place.
As long as most people continue to tolerate this invasive behavior it will continue and worsen.
Specializes in LTC/SNF, Psychiatric, Pharmaceutical.
This kind of behavior on the part of employers is sickening, and the increasing death of privacy is frightening. It used to be that this kind of thing was commonly only seen in authoritarian societies such as China. To see Americans being forced to give up their right to privacy in order to survive is downright grim.
What business is it of an employer's what your credit rating is? What relevance to most jobs other than banking or cash-handling does it have??? Most working people with bad credit are there because of circumstances out of their control, like crushing medical debt. Medical care is expensive, and the place I work at now is the first job I have held in my entire life that had medical insurance. Maybe if the hospitals actually had good pay or benefits for nurses they wouldn't be in such a bind, YA THINK?!
By that same token, there are plenty of scumbags out there with great credit. I'll bet John Gotti and Pablo Escobar had awesome credit, ditto with Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung. So to me, the argument that a credit check is an indicator of character doesn't wash. It's another invasion of privacy and the hijacking of a basic American freedom, pure and simple. I would tell a potential employer exactly where they could shove their credit check.
If that is your only glitch, don't worry about it.
The reason that they run a credit check is that statistically, people with major financial problems are more likely to take things from a place of business, be it money, or in a hospital, drugs for sale.
I don't agree with the practice either, but if you are looking for the reason why hospitals do it, that's the "bag of goods" that some HR company sold to them.
If that is your only glitch, don't worry about it.
The reason that they run a credit check is that statistically, people with major financial problems are more likely to take things from a place of business, be it money, or in a hospital, drugs for sale.
I don't agree with the practice either, but if you are looking for the reason why hospitals do it, that's the "bag of goods" that some HR company sold to them.
i am concerned because, after looking at my credit report i see 2 other duplication of the same bill from different collectiont agencies.it appears they give the information to 1 agency then to another and yet another when i owe 1 amt
i sent an online message to the credit bureau to let them know it was settled and there are duplicates.
Specializes in Med/surg,Tele,PACU,ER,ICU,LTAC,HH,Neuro.
I think they are probably using Group one. They check MORE than CREDIT and it is used to blackball nurses in Texas. The company has spread it 's wings into other states now.
If that is your only glitch, don't worry about it.
The reason that they run a credit check is that statistically, people with major financial problems are more likely to take things from a place of business, be it money, or in a hospital, drugs for sale.
I don't agree with the practice either, but if you are looking for the reason why hospitals do it, that's the "bag of goods" that some HR company sold to them.
Can you give me the source for the statistic you are giving here - that people with major financial problems (and by that I infer you mean poor credit ratings) are more likely to take things....? Or is it just one of those things that "everyone knows"?
I'd think it just as logical that those with major debt might be likely to work harder, call in less and be available for lots of overtime because they need the money. Makes just as much sense to me.
I am horrified and appalled that United States hospitals can do credit checks on prospective employees. What about human rights? What about privacy?
Maybe prospective employees should do credit checks on employers to make sure they can pay their wages? Now that would be something.
Actually I know some travel nurses who do that, after several agencies have gone belly up, leaving travelers unpaid, their housing rent not paid and some even found out the hard way that their medical insurance hadn't been paid.
Actually I know some travel nurses who do that, after several agencies have gone belly up, leaving travelers unpaid, their housing rent not paid and some even found out the hard way that their medical insurance hadn't been paid.
I worked with a few travelers in my first assignment who bragged about how much they were making (MUCH more than I was), all their perks, etc.
They weren't bragging when their company folded and left them high and dry, though.
pedsnurze1
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I agree with you 100%