LACMTA's Commitment to Privacy.
LACMTA respects the privacy of applicants, candidates and employees, and is committed to complying with applicable privacy laws. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide transparency into:
• Why LACMTA collects your personal information?
• What information LACMTA collects during the application and recruitment process?
• How LACMTA uses the provided personal information; and
• Who has access to your personal information?
Why We Collect Your Personal Information:
LACMTA collects and uses your personal information for the purpose of determining your qualifications for employment, corresponding status and reaching a well-informed hiring decision This information is also collected to comply with all applicable laws and regulations relating to the evaluation of those seeking employment, as well as to defend ourselves in claims under such laws and regulations. Additionally, if hired, relevant portions of your personal information submitted during the application and recruitment process will be used as the foundation for your personnel file and employee record. LACMTA does not collect any information that is not relevant to determining your qualifications for employment, nor does it use any collected information for unrelated purposes.
How We Collect Your Personal Information:
The majority of the information collected by LACMTA is obtained directly from your application and/or resume. We may also collect information about you from third parties, in order to: (a) verify provided information regarding prior work experience, (b) follow-up on references that you may have been provided during the application process, and (c) conduct background investigations. LACMTA will only collect such information from third parties with your knowledge and provided consent as may be required by applicable laws and regulations. Should LACMTA wish to obtain the aforementioned information about you, and you have not expressly authorized us to do so, we will contact you and request your written consent before we move forward.
Types of Information We Collect
This policy covers the information you share with LACMTA and/or which may be collected by LACMTA during the application and recruitment process including:
• Your full name, residential address, email address, telephone number, and other applicable contact information;
• Your resume, cover letter, previous and/or current work experience, other relevant experience, education, and any other information you provide to LACMTA during the application and recruitment process;
• Information from phone screenings and interviews, when applicable;
• Details regarding the type of employment you are looking for, current/desired salary information, willingness to relocate, or any other pertinent job-related preferences;
• Details of how you heard about the position for which you are applying;
• Any sensitive, protected, and/or other demographic information voluntarily provided during the application and recruitment process including gender, work eligibility, nationality, veteran status, racial/ethnic origin, or reasonable accommodations for disability;
• Reference information and/or information received from background investigations (when applicable, with your written consent); and/or
• Information relating to any prior applications you may have submitted to LACMTA and/or and previous employment history with LACMTA.
Who Has Access to Your Personal Information
All access to your provided personal information is restricted to LACMTA staff and authorized third-party agents who require this information in order to (a) make an informed hiring decision and (b) carry out responsibilities with regard to applicable recruitment or employment law. Additionally, your information may be disclosed to governmental entities (such as those authorized to review and enforce equal opportunity laws) in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. LACMTA never provides your personal information to external recruiting services, job banks, or any other third-party.
Retention and Deletion of Your Personal Information.
LACMTA retains your personal information only as long as is necessary for evaluation for employment, as well as to comply with applicable laws relating to the evaluation of those seeking employment. After this time (two years for non-hired applicants) your information is deleted or otherwise discarded.
Safeguards
LACMTA uses appropriate administrative, technical, personnel, and physical measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and unauthorized use or modification. In addition, we exercise special precautions in dealing with applicant personal data defined as sensitive by law. For example, when satisfactory completion of a medical examination is a condition for being hired, no medical information, apart from overall suitability or unsuitability for employment, is provided to hiring managers or stored in a new employee's personnel file.
Changes to This Policy:
This policy may be updated periodically. The most recent version of LACMTA’s Privacy Policy will always be located on this page and identified by the posted effective date.
Policy effective 09/06/2016
LACMTA OTAC Diversity Statement:
LACMTA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and strives to provide all employees with a working environment free of discrimination and harassment, where they are treated with dignity and respect. As such, it is contrary to LACMTA’s mission and culture to discriminate against any individual on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
LACMTA is committed to hiring the most qualified individual for each and every position and it is against our policy to discriminate against qualified persons with disabilities in regard to application procedures, hiring, advancement, discharge, compensation, training, or other terms, conditions, and privileges or employment. An individual who can be reasonable accommodated for a job, without undue hardship or posing a direct threat to the health and safety of other individuals in the workplace, will be given the same consideration for employment as any other individual.
LACMTA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of the aforementioned characteristics.
By law we must record certain information to be made a part of our affirmative action program. Applicants for employment are invited to participate in the affirmative action program by voluntarily self-identifying as a protected veteran or other minority.
In extending this invitation, we advise you that: (a) applicants are under no obligation to provide this information, but may do so in the future if they choose; (b) responses will remain confidential within the hiring department; and (c) responses will be used only for the necessary information to include in our affirmative action program. LACMTA Corporation values diversity. All information provided by applicants is done so on a strictly voluntary basis. Refusal to provide this information will have no bearing on your application and will not subject you to any adverse treatment.
Race/Ethnicity Definitions
Hispanic of Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.
White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original; peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East.
Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.
Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand and Vietnam.
American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.
Two or more races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above six races.
Protected Veteran Definitions
Protected veteran - A veteran who may be classified as an active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran, disabled veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran or recently separated veteran.
Active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran - A veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
Armed Forces service medal veteran - Any veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985 (61 FR 1209, 3 CFR, 1996 Comp., p. 159).
Disabled veteran - (1) a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or (2) a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
Recently separated veteran - A veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service.
LACMTA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and strives to provide all employees with a working environment free of discrimination and harassment, where they are treated with dignity and respect. As such, it is contrary to LACMTA’s mission and culture to discriminate against any individual on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
LACMTA is committed to hiring the most qualified individual for each and every position and it is against our policy to discriminate against qualified persons with disabilities in regard to application procedures, hiring, advancement, discharge, compensation, training, or other terms, conditions, and privileges or employment. An individual who can be reasonable accommodated for a job, without undue hardship or posing a direct threat to the health and safety of other individuals in the workplace, will be given the same consideration for employment as any other individual.
LACMTA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of the aforementioned characteristics.
By law we must record certain information to be made a part of our affirmative action program. Applicants for employment are invited to participate in the affirmative action program by voluntarily self-identifying as a protected veteran or other minority.
In extending this invitation, we advise you that: (a) applicants are under no obligation to provide this information, but may do so in the future if they choose; (b) responses will remain confidential within the hiring department; and (c) responses will be used only for the necessary information to include in our affirmative action program. LACMTA Corporation values diversity. All information provided by applicants is done so on a strictly voluntary basis. Refusal to provide this information will have no bearing on your application and will not subject you to any adverse treatment.
Race/Ethnicity Definitions
Hispanic of Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.
White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original; peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East.
Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.
Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand and Vietnam.
American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.
Two or more races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above six races.
Protected Veteran Definitions
Protected veteran - A veteran who may be classified as an active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran, disabled veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran or recently separated veteran.
Active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran - A veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
Armed Forces service medal veteran - Any veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985 (61 FR 1209, 3 CFR, 1996 Comp., p. 159).
Disabled veteran
(1) a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or (2) a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
Recently separated veteran - A veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service.