Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in California
credit fraud?
if an employer says they are going to open up a corporate account for an employee, and gets a ss# and checking account # for verification purposes for the new account, and then there is a charge for $149 on the employee's checking account because the employer used one of those bad credit - credit card services to try and open an account (even though the employee has good credit) - is this considered financial or cc fraud by the employer? the cc company name that the employer tried to open an account was USA Credit.
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: credit fraud?
How strange. Certainly the employer has to reimburse the employee for the $149, otherwise the employee should contact the State Labor Commissioner.
Re: credit fraud?
It sure sounds like that to me. I wonder if this is a small employer. My guess is that the employee is soon going to have other issues, like not getting paid. I would demand to be reimbursed in full, have employer pay for a fraud alert on my credit, and then quit.