• Have you been a victim of Credit Discrimination while applying for a job at the University of Miami?
• Have you been denied a job based on your Credit History?
• Have you been denied a job based on your Criminal History?
If the answer to any of these questions is “Yes,” we would like to talk to you.
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The University of Miami and its Miller School of Medicine engage in hiring practices that discriminate against African-Americans and Latinos. This lawsuit challenges these discriminatory practices.
Employers across the country, including the University of Miami, reject job applicants based on their credit history, even though credit is a notoriously poor screen for employment performance. This practice is racially discriminatory because it replicates widespread discrimination in the national credit reporting system, thereby disproportionately eliminating qualified African Americans and Latinos from valuable employment opportunities. This class-action lawsuit challenges the use of credit history as a barrier to employment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
African Americans and Latinos suffer higher rates than whites of many of the financial events - predatory lending, bankruptcy, unemployment - that negatively impact credit history. These effects, combined with the inaccuracies rampant in the credit reporting industry, contribute to disproportionately bad credit in minority communities. Yet there is no correlation between credit history and job performance or trustworthiness.
Loudy Appolon, the Plaintiff in this case, seeks to stop the University from using credit history as an employment screen so that all job candidates, regardless of race or ethnicity, will have a fair chance at employment.
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