Comments on: NYC battle: can employers consider job applicants’ credit records? https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/05/nyc-battle-can-employers-consider-job-applicants-credit-records/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 05 May 2013 12:46:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Leland D. Davis https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/05/nyc-battle-can-employers-consider-job-applicants-credit-records/comment-page-1/#comment-211568 Sun, 05 May 2013 12:46:46 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=38047#comment-211568 I suspect that in the case of Bloomberg, it is a matter of whose ox is being gored. Food restrictions on the pleasures of ordinary (not extremely wealthy) Americans don’t affect his life. With or without a law, I just don’t see him getting a large soft drink at McDonalds. He lives in NYC, doesn’t hunt, and can afford private security, so gun restrictions don’t affect him. However, restrictions on how businesses can operate do affect him and his Wall Street buddies, so suddenly, he discovers his inner Libertarian.

]]> By: John Burgess https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/05/nyc-battle-can-employers-consider-job-applicants-credit-records/comment-page-1/#comment-211434 Sat, 04 May 2013 14:55:17 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=38047#comment-211434 Hey! There’s an easy fix to this. The city just has to self-insure against any untoward actions undertaken by those members of classes it chooses to protect for employment purposes. It only involves free — that is, government — money, after all.

Better, though, would be to make the Mayor and all members of the city council personal liable for the consequences of their deliberative preferences.

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