In Order to Be in Compliance with the Fair Credit

question 4

Multiple Choice

In order to be in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act the company:

• A) Must provide verbal notification to the applicant that you will be pulling their credit history
• B) Should not tell the employee that they intend to look at their credit until after the results have been received and there is a negative report
• C) Should use the information only as a tie breaker if there are two candidates who are otherwise equally qualified
• D) Avoid getting the report in writing; until there is a written report, the company is under no obligation to share the report with the candidate
• E) Can allow other companies to share the report as long as they are hiring for the same job, without notification to the applicant.

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