Comments on: Do bans on credit checks in hiring work as intended? https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/04/bans-credit-checks-hiring-really-improve-minorities-outcomes/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 16 Apr 2016 22:31:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: jdgalt https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/04/bans-credit-checks-hiring-really-improve-minorities-outcomes/comment-page-1/#comment-335387 Sat, 16 Apr 2016 22:31:58 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=58640#comment-335387 There are thousands of potential reasons you might hire someone or not hire them. So long as most of those reasons are legal, it’s easy for an employer to make one up to cover whatever decision he’s made.

So the only way to make any discrimination law actually work is to enact the system they have in Germany — where the unemployment agency sends people to interviews in the order they applied for benefits, and every refusal-to-hire is followed by a hearing in which the employer must justify his decision, or be forced to hire the applicant.

So either enact that system, or scrap discrimination laws entirely. Anything in between is merely a waste of time and effort on wishful thinking.

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