How to Seek a Job with a Conviction History:
A Fair Chance Hiring Webinar (online)
Thursday, December 3 • 5:00 to 6:30 pm (PST)
Please join us for a step-by-step training in how to take advantage of the Fair Chance Act, which restricts employers from denying jobs on the basis of job applicants’ conviction histories.
Speakers:
Tawney Jeffries
Directly impacted job seeker who successfully got a job under the Fair Chance Act
Nicole James
Westcare Navigator and directly impacted job seeker
Felicia Espinosa
Root & Rebound, Fresno Site Director & Senior Staff Attorney
Stacy Villalobos
Legal Aid at Work, Staff Attorney
Katie Dixon
Legal Aid at Work, Fair Chance Community Organizer and All of Us or None member
We will review the Act’s three components:
- Ban the Box: prohibits many employers from asking about arrests or convictions until they make a conditional job offer
- Interactive Process: requires employers to engage in an interactive process with the job applicant to determine if reports of convictions are accurate and, if so, directly related to the job so as to justify revoking a job offer—despite applicant evidence of rehabilitation and mitigating circumstances.
- Off Limits Information: limits the types of convictions an employer can consider at any point in the hiring process.
You will receive a written toolkit with advice about how to navigate all three parts of this law, and you will participate in role play activities to practice those skills during the seminar. You will also receive referrals to legal agencies that can assist you in the process—to prepare for the interactive process or file a complaint to enforce the law’s requirements—and you will have a chance to ask questions of our panelists: directly impacted people who have gone through the process and experienced attorneys and advocates who have helped convicted people obtain jobs.
Register in advance for this meeting
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
See you there!
Upon release….scrounge around for food money and clothing and housing for a minimum of several years. After the seven years a slave to the system your luck of landing a job/career DOES increase….unless during the background check the company performing the inquiry also finds your name on the Registry in which case in about 1 to 2 weeks you’ll be swiftly F’d in the A and walked out is said employers place of business. God Bless America…….Bless it Reeeeal hard.
These job fairs are B.S. as it pertains to registrants. When I was 1st on probation I went to an organization that “guaranteed” to find jobs for everyone within 30 days. Went through their orientation, then had an interview with a counselor. She asked me all the usual questions, even if I had a felony record. I said,” No, just one misdemeanor “. She remarked that that wouldn’t even show up. I then tossed the grenade on her desk and said,” It’s for a sex offense”. You could literally see her recoil from me! She had zero (0) response. After fumbling for a few seconds with her inner conflict, she stumbled through a polite response that could be summed up as, “ I don’t think we can help you, now get the fuck away from me”.
Then there was the Amazon job fair. The “We hire sex offenders” is not exactly true. A Masters in Physical Therapy, a veteran, fluent in three languages, and the only person at the job fair that didn’t smell like marijuana. They even offered me a higher position and pay than the spot I was applying for. But then the background check, and the expected,” Due to your conviction for a sex offense, Amazon is rescinding their job offer”.
So in closing, unless you like being beat by a baseball bat repeatedly, don’t bother with these things. They are doing it because they have to , not because they actually want to help you. Go do your own thing. I did contract work for a while delivering auto parts. No BGCs because you aren’t an employee.
Then when I had a cushion, I started advertising on C.L. and some trade publications on line. Posted my resume, and started getting clients. Now I make about 1/2 of my old salary, but is still enough to live on ( even in Bay Area) and save for my eventual departure from the U.S. of Asses. Europe recognizes my talents, appreciates them, and has no issues with employing me.
Sounds like another person tryin cash in on hopeless sex offenders.
It doesn’t matter once the owner of the company finds out your on IML your fired no employer is gonna risk there companie and evething they built for some random sex offender basically their a liability if something was to happen wile at work the owner is most likely gonna be held accountable for what happened and he’ll probably be sued.
Or if a vindictive coworker finds out ur on the registery and makes up a false claim about you the owner could also be sued and the list goes on and on.
The only advice I can give any sexofender just dont give up1 out of 10 sex offenders will find a decent job you could be that 1 .
The outher 9 will become homeless or turn to a life of crime and ended up right where the system was designed to put them back in prison/free labor/sexoffender death camps $$$$$$$$$$$$
Good luck
It’s bunk. Don’t need to ask. Only takes a name into an online search engine to get results. Don’t need a background check when the internet does it for you. If they do hire you, then it’s not long until someone there gets nosy and blasts their search results thus creating problems.
I strongly advise against attending any job “fair.” However, if you’re desperate and want a menial, dead end job that could vanish as quick as it started, then go for it.
The “idle hands” devil’s playground nonsense is just that – a myth to prop up the “if they’re employed, recidivism goes down” assertion they love to tout. As for those that are fortunate enough to be mostly under-employed, good luck holding onto your.. “job.”
Employment while on the list only serves to bolster the registry idiots’ claim that “it’s working as intended.” It also helps their outrageous argument that the registry is not punishment.
I’m only surprised that they don’t charge.
CA does have fair chance hiring and 290 status cannot be used for employment. I’ve been turned down too and have fought it. It’s tough, but we can do it.
Janice, I hope the next order of business is to hold CA accountable to their own laws. Especially when it comes to fair chance, 1204.3, and 290.46(l)(2)(E)
Please, don’t try and tell me what I am and am not eligible for. I am very well versed in my situation. Your last sentence basically rebuts the rest of your statement . Which is circles right back to what I stated. Level of Conviction of offense, not the offense itself. Manslaughter can be cleaned off a record, but murder can not.