Apparently, there is a large portion of people that will be subjected to background checks (employment, criminal, education and credit) coming up and every 3 years there after.
They really are just building excuses to get rid of people for any little thing. Anyone else have any insight on this?
The excuse the lady from HR gave her, was that she was in a job to help members with their accounts and if she can’t manage her own, how can she tell a member how to as well. And 13 days after the initial email, she was let go. This was back in 2019, so I don’t think she can sue USAA, or maybe she can? But she took a job at Chase a few weeks later.
Pretty sure that's just not legal as stated. Also, I'm literally in the same boat. Paying minimums and even had a past due payment two months ago. That caused them to shut my card down so I can't make any more purchases nor use any more credit. I just have the balance to pay on. I still have my job. I'm 10000% convinced that what you are describing is illegal. So if it's going down like you say, she should contact a lawyer ASAP
She wasn’t in collections, she just had a very high balance and only paying the minimum. And she showed me the email from HR stating she had 10 days to pay it or be terminated. Girl uploaded statements showing she was current, but no. And she was let go, there was nothing our manager or director could do. Sucks, because she just hit her 5 year mark, and it was right before the deadline to be eligible for the bonus payout.
All banks do this, they should have done this prior to your start date if you are in the bank.
If you default on it, your job is at risk. My guess is she was in default. You can't be asked to pay a balance on a card that's current. That's illegal!
"Yes, this is correct. It use to be every 5 years if you’re in a “sensitive position,” meaning access to GL’s and ability to move money around. This happened in 2019, my cubby, she got let go due to having a bad credit score and having $8k in credit card debt."
This is not for ALL employees poster should make that clear
Yes, you’ll receive an email that your criminal and credit history will be checked. It normally takes 2-3 months for that process to be completed. My cubby who was let go, she got an email from HR informing her she had 10 days to pay off her credit card debt ($8k) or face termination. On day 11, she wasn’t able to pay it off, and she was terminated 2 days later.
Will people know if they are being selected for their background check ? Has anyone verified this who will be subjected
Yes, this is correct. It use to be every 5 years if you’re in a “sensitive position,” meaning access to GL’s and ability to move money around. This happened in 2019, my cubby, she got let go due to having a bad credit score and having $8k in credit card debt.
It has to do with changes to one state's laws so rather than just do it for that state - they will just implement for all.
If they really wanted to get rid of a lot of people, all they would have to do is institute random dr-g testing lol.
I always thought they did them anyways when the MTA was extended to the high security jobs. Surprises me they aren’t done annually. Learn something new every day.
Eh, of all the recent changes, this is the one I’m concerned about the least. These background checks are mainly for people in “Sensitive Profile” positions, which includes people who have really high levels of permissions (like certain IT administrators) or those who can directly interact with or redirect money (like bank tellers).
People in those positions have to take what’s called mandatory time away (MTA), which means they have to take 10 consecutive days off. In my opinion it makes sense to have heightened scrutiny for those positions because they have the ability to do real harm if they “went rogue.”
Plus, it wouldn’t be a good look if someone got hired with a clean record, got convicted of a financial crime, then continued to have access to member funds.
Like I said, there are plenty of things to be upset about lately, but I don’t personally see this as one of them. I’m actually surprised this wasn’t already a thing.