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I wish the Legislature spent more time on the bill limiting employer's - employee credit checks.  I felt like this bill was railroaded through without any input from Oregon businesses.  Additionally, the exceptions in the bill for law enforcement and the banking industry seem to cancel out the primary argument for the bill in the first place.  If credit information does not predict employee performance then why make an exception for anyone?

As a small business owner who planed to hire two new employees this year, I was blown away to find out that a very important resource for hiring has been made illegal by the state.  Our business is partially based out of our home so our employees will have access to both of our most prized life accomplishments, our family and our business.  Before hiring anyone, I want to have 100% confidence that I understand everything about that persons background, reliability, credit worthiness, etc.  Just because I am not lending money to these employees does not meant that I'm not granting them access to my most valuable possessions.  

posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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If we are really so worried about punishing children for the actions of their parents, then the entire in-state vs. out-of-state tuition cost structure should be brought into question.  Citizen students living in other states do not have a choice about where they are born, raised, or attend high school.  Those students are still punished with out-of-state tuition if they choose to attend Oregon schools.  Are we just assuming that those students always come from wealthy families and don’t find the out-of-state tuition costs to be problematic?  I know first hand that this is not the case.

posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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