Discount retail chain Big Lots Stores Inc. was hit with a proposed class action suit alleging it routinely violated federal law in the way it executed background checks on employees. The suit filed in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas alleges the company “systematically” violated the FCRA’s standalone disclosure requirement by making prospective employees sign a document used as a background check consent form that contained extraneous information. The violation alleged in the complaint entitles each member of the class to statutory damages between $100 and $1,000 a piece as well as punitive damages. A similar putative class action alleging the same violation of the FCRA was filed against Big Lots in Illinois in July.
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