Spokane Housing Authority

Spokane Housing Authority

Employment Criteria

The following guidelines are intended to assist and guide in the approval or denial of offers of employment. All employment reports are screened with equal care.

Credit Background

·  Bankruptcies must be dismissed or discharged.

·  No outstanding debts or collection accounts to utility companies in the last seven (7) years.

·  Medical and education expenses/collections will not affect your eligibility.

·  Lack of credit history will be viewed favorably.

Criminal History

Denial of employment may be warranted if:

·  The applicant has been convicted of any felony crime within the past seven (7) years. The seven (7) year period must be unsupervised time and crime-free.

·  The applicant has been convicted of any drug-related criminal activity within the past seven (7) years. The seven (7) year period must be unsupervised time and crime-free.

·  The applicant has a conviction of manufacturing methamphetamine. The applicant shall be permanently prohibited from employment.

·  In the absence of a conviction, there is otherwise “reasonable cause to support” the applicant is or has been involved in illegal drug-related or other criminal activity.

·  The applicant is subject to a registration requirement under a state or Federal Sex Offender Registration Act.

·  The applicant who is engaging in, or has engaged in (during three years’ time before the decision) violent criminal activity; other activity or other criminal activity that would threaten the health or safety of SHA, contractor, or agent of SHA, or would constitute a direct threat to person and/or property.

Note: A plea of “no contest” shall be considered as a conviction. SHA is not soliciting information from you relating to your prior arrest history; however, in determining whether or not an individual has engaged in prohibited conduct (e.g. drug or other criminal conduct), evidence of such conduct sufficient to deny application shall be determined by a preponderance of the evidence without satisfying the standard of proof used for a criminal conviction. Arrest and/or conviction of an individual shall not be required to support a determination to deny application.

Driver History

Employees who must drive as part of their duties, or as required by the will not be allowed to drive a company vehicle or use their personal vehicle for agency business, if any of the following has occurred:

(For purposes of this policy, a conviction includes a plea of guilty, “no contest,” voluntary or mandatory traffic school attendance, forfeiture of bail or imposition of a fine.)

1.  Operating any motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or an illegal or controlled substance within the last thirty-six months.

2.  Possessing alcohol or an illegal or controlled substance in an authority vehicle within the last thirty-six months.

3.  Conviction of any moving violation resulting in a fatal accident.

4.  Conviction of a felony involving the use of a motor vehicle.

5.  Conviction of three or more moving violations within the last thirty-six months

6.  Two or more “at-fault” accidents within the last thirty-six months. (An “at-fault” accident is one in which the employee was fined, received an adverse judgement or settlement in a civil lawsuit or in which the employee’s insurer settled prior to commencement of a lawsuit.)

7.  Any combination of two or more license suspensions, restrictions or revocations within the last thirty-six months.

8.  Driving without a valid driver’s license.

9.  Being declared a “negligent driver” by the state motor vehicle department (or any equivalent designation for the state in question) within the last thirty-six months.

HR/Recruitment/Pre-Hire/Employment_Criteria 10/1/2016