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Do people have a right to know the exact reason(s) for when they have been denied employment?
If you were denied employment by a company, is there a law that requires that company to tell you why? Something like this happened to me, and I was wondering if I am legally able to request this from the company that decided not to choose me. I need it for a defamation of character claim against someone else. I live in Florida.
I mean via a background check!! You have to sign a consent for a background check, and in that page long document, it says you have a right to find out why u were denied employment!
(I'm not talking about qualifications, etc.)
If the denial of employment is based on something that was discovered in your background check then, under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the company is obligated to disclose that your background check was the basis for your denial of employment and provide you with a copy of the background report unless the job is in the transportation industry and the employment application was not made in person, in which case you are still entitled to receive the name and contact information of the agency that provided the information.
They are also supposed to provide you with a summary of your rights as set forth in the FCRA with regards to the reporting agency.
If you believe that there is false and defamatory information in your report you can dispute the information with the agency and the agency is required to either remove the information or provide an explanation for why it is not doing so within 30 days of your notice. As a practical matter what most agencies will do is contact the original reporting party that provided the false information for a response and if that party does not respond then the agency will remove the information as non-verifiable information.
You should also be aware that you are entitled to a free credit report from the three major credit reporting agencies, Equifax, TransUnion and Experian once per year. You can request your free credit report at https://www.annualcreditreport.com/
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