LA County Public Works is eager to work with you - contractors and communities - to achieve the goals of the Local Worker Hiring Program. We want to increase local participation in the construction of capital projects and create job opportunities within the County’s most economically challenged communities.
Los Angeles County's Local and Targeted Worker Hiring Policy was adopted by the Board of Supervisors in October 2016 to ensure that local workers have employment opportunities on projects within their own communities. This policy sets a goal to hire 30% Local Workers and 10% Targeted Workers on all County capital and construction projects valued at $500,000 or more.
Local Workers are residents living in specific communities where the average percentage of households are living significantly below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL).
List of specific communities identified by ZIP code
Who may qualify as a “Targeted Worker”?
A Targeted Worker is a County resident who has career-limiting circumstances, such as:
- Documented annual income at or below 100% Federal Poverty Level
- History of involvement with the criminal justice system
- Current recipient of government cash or food assistance benefits
- Homeless or has been homeless within the last year
- Veteran or eligible spouse of a veteran
- Eligible migrant and seasonal farmworker
- Protracted unemployment (six months or more)
- English language learner
- Low level of literacy
- Disabled
- Custodial single parent
- Former foster youth
- No high school diploma or GED
- Older individual (55+)
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