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Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
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Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
#12Sounds like a terrible company to work for.
Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
#13Which in the service that has all your salary history? Don't lie about your salary as it'll show up as a discrepancy.
Unless a significant portion of your compensation is equity…
Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
#14There is a way to "freeze" your job data I believe - totally different from freezing your credit. No idea how far it reaches but I have considered it myself. Anybody know how to do it?
The fair credit reporting act (FCRA) does not care about 'reasons'. Every company I have dealt with trying to go down that road has found themselves in a rather nasty end. Chex Systems, "WeWork", even a dating site. If you record data and then present it to others as factual history, you have to abide by the FCRA.
Are you saying a credit freeze does or does not prevent companies from looking at your employment history?
Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
#15> CEO Mark Begor this week informed employees that some of their "teammates" were fired for having "a second full-time job while maintaining their full-time role at EFX," which is the ticker symbol for Equifax.
Don't punish people for being entrepreneurial, it's completely un-American. If you can't tell whether someone is producing adequate value or not without interrogating their finances, that's on you.
What a conniving snake of an asshole. Can we abolish Equifax? Anyone have a link to the opt-out?
what does someone who doxes the general public for chump change deserve? I wonder what skeletons Mark Begor has in his closet..
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#16> Executives, especially in the tech industry, have said they're worried that some remote employees are distracted.
“Distracted” like the time that Equifax leaked hundreds of millions of pieces of personal data. Maybe instead of blaming the workforce they should worry about making the company a place that people want to work exclusively. Equifax does not matter at all as an organization.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fair credit reporting act (FCRA) does not care about 'reasons'. Every company I have dealt with trying to go down that road has found themselves in a rather nasty end. Chex Systems, "WeWork", even a dating site. If you record data and then present it to others as factual history, you have to abide by the FCRA.
Are you saying a credit freeze does or does not prevent companies from looking at your employment history?
It should prevent other companies from getting your data. It does not stop Equifax from looking at the data they’re hoovering up. It’s going to take a law (something like the CCPA/CPRA) to destroy their Work Number product (by creating controls so tight on worker employment and compensation info a business can’t aggregate and sell it profitably).
Call your state and federal legislative representatives.
(It does appear California residents might be able to have The Work Number delete their data: https://myprivacy.equifax.com/personal-info ; I’m not a California resident, so please report back if this works)
Edit: I qualified my first sentence because Equifax might just ignore your workplace data freeze and hand out your info anyway.
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#18There is a way to "freeze" your job data I believe - totally different from freezing your credit. No idea how far it reaches but I have considered it myself. Anybody know how to do it?
This form: https://assets.equifax.com/wfs/theworknumber/assets/twn_Empl...
Mailed, or emailed to: TWNFreeze@equifax.com
Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
#19Do you want shitty publicity? Because this is how you get shitty publicity.
Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
#20There is a way to "freeze" your job data I believe - totally different from freezing your credit. No idea how far it reaches but I have considered it myself. Anybody know how to do it?