{"id":133237,"date":"2025-09-14T21:26:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/14\/job-applicant-accuses-amazon-of-running-credit-check-without-notice\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T21:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:26:36","slug":"job-applicant-accuses-amazon-of-running-credit-check-without-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/14\/job-applicant-accuses-amazon-of-running-credit-check-without-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Applicant Accuses Amazon of Running Credit Check Without Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Job applicant Myeeshia Rigby filed a class action complaint against e-commerce giant Amazon on Thursday, which alleges the company violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act when it ran a credit report on the plaintiff, a candidate for employment, but made the decision not to hire her. The plaintiff maintains the company took this adverse action against her without providing her with an advance copy of the credit report or discussing its findings with her, thus violating the FCRA.<\/p>\n

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Job applicant Myeeshia Rigby filed a class action complaint against e-commerce giant Amazon on Thursday, which alleges the company violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act when it ran a credit report on the plaintiff, a candidate for employment, but made the decision not to hire her. The plaintiff maintains the company took this adverse action against her without providing her with an advance copy of the credit report or discussing its findings with her, thus violating the FCRA.<\/p>\n

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Job applicant Myeeshia Rigby filed a class action complaint against e-commerce giant Amazon on Thursday, which alleges the company violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act when it ran a credit report on the plaintiff, a candidate for employment, but made the decision not to hire her. The plaintiff maintains the company took this adverse action […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/legal-news-HsuHHm.jpg?fit=621%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}