Your Job History For Sale

This is beyond belief for myself and my husband.  If you knew this, then fine, but we did not.  And yes, his company does participate in Talx, and yes, he does feel like he has been lied to, and cheated of his anonymity, as much as one can be, within a large government contracting firm.

The next time you apply for a loan or a new job, a lender or prospective employer might go online to access a database instead of calling your human resources department to verify your employment and income.

You can read more after you engage your outrage at what corporate America is doing, for themselves, but not for you.

Employers use Talx to handle salary and employment verifications and, in turn, share their payroll information and often several years' worth of payroll records. Employees can challenge the accuracy of any information.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...

Ha!  See!  We don't have to pay you one more dollar for your services, because you worked for xyz for this amount, so we will undercut them by say, oh how about 15%, and you say how happy you are to take that.  How about it, sonny?  Sign right here, and start right now.

Employment verification data include the company name, the employee's job title, whether the employee is active or inactive, the start date, the most recent hire date and the total length of time with the company, Ford says.

No more fudging those hire/fire dates, bud, they are right here in front of me.  So what you gonna do about it?

How to check your Work Number
Talx abides by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Ford says. That means you can request a free copy of your Work Number records every year. That file also will tell you who has been looking at your information. To get your files, you can print out a request form and mail it in or call 1-866-604-6570.

Ford says the number of consumer disputes is "very small" despite more than 600,000 record checks each month. The company has had a dispute process in place for a little more than a year, and in that time it has had about 150 disputes, she says.

Who knew about this?  How can you dispute if you didn't know?  I love the jargon that all big business uses to disenfranchise the working man, don't you?  Only 150 disputes in the mere little more than a year that the company has had the dispute process in place.  

I hope you found this as interesting to read as we did.  Dh is fairly furious.  There is a form you can fill out so that your company will disenroll you from the Talx database, but then we know, in all probablility what that mean, don't we?

You must be hiding something, bud!

(Some help with tags would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance, pb.)