Commission Hearing Examiner

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Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department

Exempt | Location: Civic Center

Per diem Salary

$900.00

contact information

LA Civil Rights
CRE@lacity.org

job description

LA Civil Rights is focused on reducing bias and injustices through equity, policy, and programming. In addition, LA Civil Rights manages all aspects of its civil rights enforcement. This includes supporting the Commission on Civil Rights in implementing administrative rules and issuing subpoenas, as well as managing requests for administrative hearings and appeals.

Responsibilities: Hearing Examiners conduct administrative hearings where a respondent is challenging a Notice of Violation of the Los Angeles Civil and Human Rights Law. A Hearing Officer presides over hearings, rules on motions and objections, administers oaths to witnesses, rules on the admissibility of testimony and proposed exhibits, determines whether due process requirements have been met, evaluates the credibility of witnesses, and issues a written administrative ruling stating factual findings and conclusions based on the hearing record. For more information about the City’s Civil and Human Rights Law, click here.

Hearing Examiners will receive $900 for a full-day hearing, $450 for a half-day hearing, and $900 per final report.

How to apply

All interested candidates must submit a City application, cover letter, and resume. These documents must be combined into a single PDF and emailed to CRE@lacity.org with the subject line “Civil Rights Hearing Examiner Application - [Your Name].” The City application form may be found at http://per.lacity.org/application.pdf

Incomplete applications will be disqualified. Submittals will not be considered if received by mail, fax, or in person.

exempt employment

If employment is said to be exempt, it is meant that the employment is exempted from the civil service provisions of the City Charter. In order to receive a regular civil service appointment, employees must have successfully participated in a civil service examination, received a high enough score on the examination to be placed on and receive an appointment from an eligible list, and they must serve a probationary period. Exempt employees do not compete in a civil service examination, they are not placed on an eligible list and receive an appointment from that list, nor do they serve a probationary period. As a result, exempt employees do not have what is referred to as a “property interest” in their job. Exempt employees serve at the will of the appointing authority and can be terminated at any time without cause. Employees with a property interest in their job, i.e. civil service employees, cannot be deprived of their employment(discharged or suspended) without due process.

General Information About Exempt Employment

Exempt employees serve at the will of the appointing authority, and as such, they may be discharged, suspended or otherwise disciplined without cause. Exempt employees have no property interest in their employment, and any procedural benefit or other prerogative extended to them by their appointing authority is not intended to create and does not create any such property interest. No officer or employee of the City may make to any other officer or employee any representation of a property interest in employment which does not correspond to Charter provisions unless the City Council, by ordinance, permits such representation. No unauthorized representation can serve as the basis of an employee's reliance on, or expectation of, a property interest.

Employees Seeking To Become Civil Service Employees

There is no protective leave for an exempt employee appointed to a civil service position. Upon receiving a civil service appointment and passing probation, the former exempt employee will be subject to the Civil Service provisions described in Article X of the City Charter. Upon appointment, the civil service employee will begin to accrue displacement and layoff seniority on the first day of his/her civil service appointment and may file for promotional examinations for which s/he qualifies. A full or half-time exempt employee appointed to a full or half-time civil service position continues to: contribute to the Retirement System; accrue vacation time; accrue sick time; receive anniversary date salary increases; and, receive health and dental benefits identical to those received in the civil service position.

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