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Application for Employment

The Parish of Caddo is an equal opportunity employer in all phases of its business and personnel matters. The Parish of Caddo does not discriminate with regard to race, sex, religion, age, national origin, disability, pregnancy, or any other impermissible criteria in any employment decisions. Questions regarding the Parish of Caddo’s equal employment opportunity policy are welcome and should be addressed to the Department of Finance and Human Resources.

Applications are submitted and accepted online through the Parish of Caddo eRecruit system. Your application must be received by 11:59 pm on the closing date of the posting to be considered. Applications and/or résumés that are submitted in any other manner without prior approval from Human Resources will not be considered. For assistance, contact Human Resources at (318) 226-6906 or humanresources@caddo.org.

You must review the following important information before proceeding to the online application form.

Important Information

Statement Concerning Your Employment in a Job Not Covered by Social Security

Your earnings from this job are not covered under Social Security. When you retire, or if you become disabled, you may receive a pension based on earnings from this job. If you do, and you are also entitled to a benefit from Social Security based on either your own work or the work of your husband or wife, or former husband or wife, your pension may affect the amount of the Social Security benefit you receive. Your Medicare benefits, however, will not be affected. Under the Social Security law, there are two ways your Social Security benefit amount may be affected.

Windfall Elimination Provision

Under the Windfall Elimination Provision, your Social Security retirement or disability benefit is figured using a modified formula when you are also entitled to a pension from a job where you did not pay Social Security tax. As a result, you will receive a lower Social Security benefit than if you were not entitled to a pension from this job. For example, if you are age 62 in 2005, the maximum monthly reduction in your Social Security benefit as a result of this provision is $313.50. This amount is updated annually. This provision reduces, but does not totally eliminate, your Social Security benefit. For additional information, please refer to Social Security Publication, “Windfall Elimination Provision.”

Government Pension Offset Provision

Under the Government Pension Offset Provision, any Social Security spouse or widow( er) benefit to which you become entitled will be offset if you also receive a Federal, State or local government pension based on work where you did not pay Social Security tax. The offset reduces the amount of your Social Security spouse or widow( er) benefit by two-thirds of the amount of your pension.

For example, if you get a monthly pension of $600 based on earnings that are not covered under Social Security, two-thirds of that amount, $400, is used to offset your Social Security spouse or widow( er) benefit. If you are eligible for a $500 widow( er) benefit, you will receive $100 per month from Social Security ($500 - $400=$100). Even if your pension is high enough to totally offset your spouse or widow( er) Social Security benefit, you are still eligible for Medicare at age 65. For additional information, please refer to Social Security Publication, “Government Pension Offset.”

For More Information

Social Security publications and additional information, including information about exceptions to each provision, are available at www.socialsecurity.gov. You may also call toll free 1-800-772-1213, or for the deaf or hard of hearing call the TTY number 1-800-325-0778, or contact your local Social Security office.

A Summary of Your Rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act

The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is designed to promote accuracy, fairness, and privacy of information in the files of every “consumer reporting agency” (CRA). Most CRAs are credit bureaus that gather and sell information about you – such as if you pay your bills on time or have filed bankruptcy – to creditors, employers, landlords, and other businesses. You can find the complete text of the FCRA, 15 U.S.C. 1681-1681u, at the Federal Trade Commission’s web site ( http://www.ftc.gov ). The FCRA gives you specific rights, as outlined below. You may have additional rights under state law. You may contact a state or local consumer protection agency or a state attorney general to learn those rights.

You must be told if information in your file has been used against you. Anyone who uses information from a CRA to take action against you – such as denying an application for credit, insurance, or employment – must tell you, and give you the name, address, and phone number of the CRA that provided the consumer report.

You can find out what is in your file. At your request, a CRA must give you the information in your file, and a list of everyone who has requested it recently. There is no charge for the report if the person has taken action against you because of information supplied by the CRA, if you request the report within 60 days of receiving notice of the action. You also are entitled to one free report every twelve months upon request if you certify that (1) you are unemployed and plan to seek employment within 60 days, (2) you are on welfare, or (3) your report is inaccurate due to fraud. Otherwise, a CRA may charge you up to eight dollars.

You can dispute inaccurate information with the CRA. If you tell a CRA that your file contains inaccurate information, the CRA must investigate the items (usually within 30 days) by presenting to its information source all relevant evidence you submit, unless your dispute is frivolous. The source must review your evidence and report its findings to the CRA. (The source also must advise national CRAs – to which it has provided the data – of any error.) The CRA must give you a written report of the investigation, and a copy of your report if the investigation results in any change. If the CRA’s investigation does not resolve the dispute, you may add a brief statement to your file. The CRA must normally include a summary of your statement in future reports. If an item is deleted or a dispute statement is filed, you may ask that anyone who has recently received your report be notified of the change.

Inaccurate information must be corrected or deleted. A CRA must remove or correct inaccurate or unverified information from its files, usually within 30 days after you dispute it. However, the CRA is not required to remove accurate data from your file unless it is outdated (as described below) or cannot be verified. If your dispute results in any change to your report, the CRA cannot reinsert into your file a disputed item unless the information source verifies its accuracy and completeness. In addition, the CRA must give you a written notice telling you it has reinserted the item. The notice must include the name, address, and phone number of the information source.

You can dispute inaccurate items with the source of the information. If you tell anyone – such as a creditor who reports to a CRA – that you dispute an item, they may not then report the information to a CRA without including a notice of your dispute. In addition, once you’ve notified the source of the error in writing, it may not continue to report the information, if it is, in fact, an error.

Outdated information may not be reported. In most cases, a CRA may not report negative information that is more than seven years old; ten years for bankruptcies.

Access to your file is limited. A CRA may provide information about you only to people with a need recognized by the FCRA – usually to consider an application with a creditor, insurer, employer, landlord, or other business.

Your consent is required for reports that are provided to employers, or reports that contain medical information. A CRA may not give out information about you to your employer, or prospective employer, without your written consent. A CRA may not report medical information about you to creditors, insurers, or employers without your permission.

You may choose to exclude your name from CRA lists for unsolicited credit and insurance offers. Creditors and insurers may use file information as the basis for sending you unsolicited offers of credit or insurance. Such offers must include a toll-free phone number for you to call if you want your name and address removed from future lists. If you call, you must be kept off the lists for two years. If you request, complete, and return the CRA from provided for this purpose, you must be taken off the lists indefinitely.

You may seek damages from violators. If a CRA, a user or (in some cases) a provider of CRA data, violates the FCRA, you may sue them in state or federal court.

Nepotism

No immediate family member shall be hired to work in the same department as the employee. Immediate family shall mean an employee’s children, the spouses of his/her children, his/her siblings and their spouses, his/her parents, his/her spouse and the spouse’s parents. If you have a relative who is employed by the Parish of Caddo, please state their name, relationship, and department in the text box provided in the Résumé section of your online application.

Current Employer

The Parish of Caddo verifies your employment history by contacting your previous employers. If there is any reason we should not contact your current employer, please state so in the text box provided in the Résumé section of your online application.

Criminal Record

The Parish of Caddo performs a criminal background check on all applicants selected for employment. A criminal record is not an absolute bar from employment at the Parish of Caddo nor are you required to disclose any information relating to your criminal records which have been expunged, sealed or impounded if such records are protected from disclosure to employers by law. If you have been convicted of a felony, or plea bargained from a felony charge to a misdemeanor, or have plea bargained a felony to a non-conviction unadjudicated probation, please state so in the text box provided in the Résumé section of your online application.

Drug Screening

The Parish of Caddo requires a post-offer and for cause drug screening. Random drug testing may also be administered.

Acknowledgment

I understand that the employment for which I am applying is not guaranteed for any particular length of time and that either the company or I remain free to terminate the relationship at any time. Furthermore, this application represents the entire agreement by the parties pertaining to employment with the Parish of Caddo and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings.

To the best of my knowledge all information in my application is correct. I understand that the Company reserves the right to verify all information in my application and that all false statements will be considered sufficient cause for my rejection as an applicant, or my dismissal if hired. I further agree that, if hired, I will comply with all rules and regulations set forth by the Parish of Caddo.

I authorize Parish of Caddo representatives to make whatever inquiries deemed necessary in connection with my application for employment. As part of such inquiries, Parish of Caddo representatives have my permission to contact persons who may have information relating to my suitability for employment. I authorize and instruct any person or agency contacted to participate or conduct inquiries at its request, to compile information, and to furnish any information compiled as a result of such inquiries. I further authorize the Parish of Caddo, at its sole discretion, to furnish copies of this authorization and my application to any person in connection with the above purpose.

AGREE – I have read and understand the acknowledgment above and wish to proceed to the online application for employment with the Parish of Caddo.