My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: CALIFORNIA
What are the laws in California about potential employers running a credit check on job applicants as part of a background check ? Our home is facing foreclosure and my husband is worried that the terrible credit is going to affect his abilities to get promoted at his current job or to find a job in the future. A google search for "poor credit affects job opportunities" results in abundant horror stories of people who have been denied jobs or fired from existing positions due to poor credit resulting from foreclosure to bankruptcy to unpaid medical bills to simply errors on their credit reports.
My husband is completely devastated and we just need advise for him. When we purchased this home 6 years ago, it was with the intention of living here for the rest of our lives and paying our housing bills on time. But, life happens. We are forced to move. We can survive without credit for the next few years, but we cannot survive without a job !
He works in IT for a non-profit, and is not planning to apply for a promotion anytime soon. We just want to be sure that the impending foreclosure and possible bankruptcy will not create problems with his employment in the next few years. Please advise ? Thank you.

