*Portions of this blog were originally posted on Hunton Employment and Labor Law Persectives website, written by Sara Hamilton and Thomas P. Murphy.

The District of Columbia joins a dozen other jurisdictions across the country that prohibit an employer’s use of credit information as part of an applicant's background check used for employment decisions.  The new law, D.C. Act 21-673, amends the District of Columbia’s existing human rights law by adding credit information as a prohibited basis for discrimination for any employment decision (not just hiring) and applies to employers of any size.