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FCRA Compliance Moves Up The To-do List

February 3, 2015

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The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is best known as the law regulating exchange of credit reports between credit bureaus and lenders, but it also regulates the information exchange between employers and the consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) that provide consumer reports. The obligations that the FCRA imposes on employers are triggered when they order virtually any type of report from a CRA. For decades, lawsuits under the FCRA primarily targeted credit reporting agencies and lawsuits against employers were rare, but since early 2014 approximately 30 FCRA class-action lawsuits have targeted employers. In this Today’s General Counsel article, Littler Mendelson attorneys Rod M. Fliegel, Jennifer Mora and William Simmons explain what these lawsuits allege, and what companies can do to reduce their chances of becoming a target.

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