On September 5th, Assemblymember Tony Mendoza has announced a "Labor Day Family BBQ" to be held at Heritage Park in Cerritos on Saturday, September 5th from 11AM to 1PM.  The reason for this BBQ is to sell the public on his bill AB943, which purports to remove barriers to employment.  Does this bill actually do what he promises?

Existing law requires, prior to requesting a report for employment purposes, the employer using the report provide notice to the prospective employee.  The notice must inform the employee prospect that a report will be used, the source of the report, and must contain a box that must be checked off to receive a copy of their credit report, in case there is a dispute. 

 

His bill would prohibit an employer from obtaining a consumer credit report for employment purposes unless the information in the report is substantially job related, meaning that the position has access to money, other assets, or confidential information; or the position is a managerial position, a position in the state Department of Justice, a position in a city, county, or both city and county, that of a sworn peace office or other law enforcement position, or a position for which the information contained in the report is required to be disclosed by law or to be obtained by the employer. 

 

After this article more exceptions will probably be added as an amendment(s).  One could for example see multiple exemptions being added such as for federal and state court employees who are not sworn peace officers or hold another law enforcement position, or those jobs that allow access into private homes or apartments like installers, repairmen, contractors, plumbers or electricians. (Not all thieves have criminal records. Didn't Tony see that report on Dateline NBC?). 

 

Is this any way to write a law, especially if the law could leave out an important exception that the author or another legislator might have overlooked?  Would it not be better to change the law to have the employer ask the prospective employee to get the three credit rating bureaus to review their own credit report and then give access to the employer once the credit reports have been verified by the prospective employee for accuracy?  If Tony wanted to he could add a requirement that the employer give the employee prospect the reason(s) why the credit report is needed.

 

Further complicating the law is something Tony and his ilk do.  It keeps lawyers employed by forcing us to need a lawyer for more things.  However, every liberal bit of legislation Tony Mendoza and those like him in the legislature continue to write will further complicate the law and hurt us all that much more. 

 

Yours truly,

Matt Kauble,

President of the Cerritos Republican Club

 

P.S.  Make sure to come to our September 8th Meeting in the Cerritos Library's Skyline Room at 7:00 PM for our candidate forum.  We will be holding a business meeting afterwords to consider club endorsements. 

 

If you are reading this and are not a member of the Cerritos Republican Club you can join by contacting Barbara Lockwood, our membership chair by email at barbie562@aol.com or calling her at 562-926-7069.  To join you must be a Registered Republican in good standing.

 

The California Republican Convention will be Friday, September 25th through Sunday, the 27th in Indian Wells at the Renaissance, to sign up go to www.cagop.org.
 

Last month I refered to guest articles to be included in this month's newsletter.  Given the time restraints with getting this newsletter out in time to publicize both the candidate forum and Mendoza's BBQ promotion of his bad bill, we will seek to have another Special Edition later this month that will feature those articles.

 

Last announcement the 56th AD Republican Central Committee is in the process of putting together our precinct operations.  If interested in participating please contact either myself (email: mskauble@hotmail.com; phone 562-743-1855) or Roger Garrett (email: mrupac@aol.com; phone: 562-843-1251).