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Employment Credit Checks Ban Takes Effect
Posted by Deyanira Del Rio — New York just became a more equitable city. Today, Local Law 37 goes into effect, making it illegal for employers to discriminate against job applicants and employees on the basis of credit history. New York City’s credit check ban is the strongest in the country, covering virtually all employers…
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New York Law Journal: City’s Credit Law Tackles Serious Discrimination (Letter to the Editor)
New York Law Journal — The article, “City’s New Credit Check Law Is Unnecessary” (NYLJ, Aug. 13, 2015), unfortunately gets a whole lot wrong about New York City’s newly-enacted employment credit checks ban, which goes into effect Sept. 3.
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Community Groups Call on New York City to Fight for Responsible Banking Act
The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD), New Economy Project, Legal Services NYC, and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) are profoundly disappointed that a U.S. district court has ruled in favor of the banking industry in striking down the NYC Responsible Banking Act (RBA).
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El Diario: Polémica: Negocios del ‘Check Casher’ Quieren dar Préstamos
El Diario — La industria de los ‘check casher’ que es usada por muchos hispanos intenta modernizarse, pero se le está haciendo difícil porque es regulada por una ley que data de 1944. Los propietarios están urgiendo a los legisladores neoyorquinos una reforma y la vía libre para proveer préstamos tarjetas de débito y otros…
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Northwest Indiana Times: The Perils of Employment Credit Checks
Northwest Indiana Times — You applied, aced the interview and received a contingent job offer. But then the company pulled it after checking your credit. It’s a scenario that happens often across much of America.
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Community, Labor and Civil Rights Groups Rally Behind NYS Payroll Card Rules
Organizations across the state and country have rallied in support of New York’s proposed rules to rein in the payroll card industry. New York’s rules would be among the strongest in the country and ensure that large employers do not use payroll cards to unfairly shift payroll costs onto low-wage workers. The New York…
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The Awl: The Ungentrifiers
The Awl — The NYC Community Land Initiative is an alliance of organizations, led primarily by New Economy Project and Picture the Homeless, that is working to establish community land trusts and mutual housing associations throughout the city, beginning in East Harlem.
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Payroll Cards: A Barrier to Fair Pay in New York
The New York Times published an excellent editorial yesterday — “Another Fight for Fair Pay in New York” — in support of NYS Department of Labor’s recent proposal to regulate payroll cards.
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@CFPB: Here’s A No-Brainer
Several times each month, lawyers from New Economy Project serve as volunteer attorneys at courthouses around the city, where we help New Yorkers defend themselves against debt collection lawsuits. Recently, while at Staten Island civil court, I met Mr. B, an older New Yorker, whose case struck me as a vivid example of why strong…
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Credit Checks Campaign Media Roundup
With just 44 days to go until the Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act goes into effect, we put together this media summary of the three-year campaign to win passage of the law. This is just a sampling of the widespread coverage received by New Economy Project and allies in the Coalition to Stop Credit…
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(Archive) Support Strong NYS Payroll Card Rules
New York State’s Department of Labor has proposed new payroll card rules that would advance workers’ rights and prohibit fees that unfairly deplete workers’ wages.
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A Bank for the Public Good – June 18
New Economy Project, with co-sponsors Americans for Financial Reform, Center for Working Families and Demos, organized a public banking convening, on June 18, 2015.