Does Enterprise Mobility hire people with felonies?

What Enterprise Mobility has said

Enterprise Mobility's candidate privacy policy says criminal record checks or other background verifications may be part of an application only where applicable, that pre-employment screening providers are used only for certain specified roles, and that credit checks are limited to positions with significant fiduciary responsibilities. It does not say which roles, when, or how results are weighed. Postings from its California and Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia/Maryland hiring groups say Enterprise will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories as required by applicable law, and the D.C.-area postings require a satisfactory background check; the postings we read from other regions carry neither line. Many driving-related postings require no drug or alcohol related conviction on the applicant's driving record for 3 to 5 years.

• Local fair-chance notice

  Postings from Enterprise's California hiring group (a Sacramento detailer and a San Luis Obispo driver) and all five postings we opened from its Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia/Maryland group (Dulles, Sterling and Reagan Airport in Virginia; Rockville and Beltsville/Laurel in Maryland) say Enterprise will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories as required by, and consistent with, applicable law. About 55 other U.S. postings we checked from other regions (including Louisiana, Nebraska, Florida, Arizona, New York, Texas, Wisconsin, Colorado, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Nevada and Kentucky) did not carry the line, so we read it as a regional notice tied to local or state law, not a company-wide policy.¹

Does Enterprise Mobility do background checks?

Enterprise Mobility runs background checks for some roles. Enterprise Mobility's candidate privacy policy (last updated August 2024) lists criminal record checks or other background verifications or references (only where applicable) among the data it collects, says pre-employment screening providers are used only for certain specified roles, says screening and reference checks happen where applicable and with consent where the law requires, and says credit checks are run, with consent and where state and local law allow, only for positions with significant fiduciary responsibilities. It doesn't say which other roles are screened, when the check happens, who the vendor is, or how far back it looks. Five driver and detailer postings from the Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia/Maryland group require a satisfactory background check covering driving record and social security, and four of them add employment references and education. None of the postings we read from other regions mentions a background check.^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}

• Criminal history
• Credit
• Driving record
• Past jobs
• Education
• Identity

• How long a background check takes

Does Enterprise Mobility drug test?

Enterprise Mobility hasn't published a drug testing policy. Enterprise Mobility hasn't published a drug testing policy on the pages we opened. Several postings require no alcohol or drug related conviction on the applicant's driving record (see role notes); that is a driving-record requirement, not a drug test.^3,4,5,11

Rules for specific jobs

• Driver and truck rental service roles

  (company policy) Postings for a driver in Kenner, LA and a truck rental vehicle service attendant in Orlando, FL require a valid driver's license with no more than two moving violations or at-fault accidents in the past 3 years and no drug or alcohol related conviction on the driving record in the past 5 years. The Orlando posting sets a minimum age of 21.⁵

• Management trainee (Kendall, FL posting)

  (company policy) The posting requires a bachelor's degree, a valid driver's license with no more than two moving violations in the last 3 years, and no alcohol or drug related conviction on the driving record in the last 5 years. One posting; we did not read other management trainee postings.⁴

• Detailers and car washers

  (company policy) The Yuma, AZ detailer posting requires a valid driver's license with no more than two moving violations or at-fault accidents in the past 3 years and no drug or alcohol related conviction on the driving record in the past 3 years. The Omaha, NE detailer posting lists the same license and violations rule but no drug or alcohol conviction line.¹¹

• DOT drivers (Reno, NV and Wichita, KS postings)

  (company policy) These postings say Enterprise is subject to certain Department of Transportation regulations, require a minimum age of 21, qualification to drive under DOT rules and a DOT medical certificate, and set driving-record limits including no drug or alcohol related conviction (such as DUI/DWI) on the driving record in the past 5 years. They don't require a commercial driver's license or mention a drug test.¹²

• Drivers and detailers in the Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia/Maryland group

  (company policy) Postings from this group require a satisfactory background check that includes driving (no more than 2 moving violations or at-fault accidents in the past 3 years and no DUI or DWI on the driving record in the last 3 years) and social security, and most add employment references and education. Five postings in Virginia and Maryland.⁸

Your rights, and how far back a check can go

• Under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), an employer must get your written permission before it gets a background report about you from a background screening company.^23,24,25
• Before an employer decides not to hire, keep, or promote you because of something in a background report, it must give you a copy of the report and a document called "A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act."^23,24
• You have the right to dispute inaccurate or incomplete information in your background report directly with the company that made it.^23,26
• The FCRA's seven-year limit does not apply to criminal convictions, so under federal law a conviction can show up on a background report no matter how old it is.^27,28
• Under the FCRA, background and credit reports generally cannot include arrest records, civil lawsuits, or civil judgments that are more than seven years old (or older than the statute of limitations, if that is longer).^27,29

Your full background check rights

Before you apply

• You can ask a background screening company for the information it has on you, and the CFPB keeps a list of consumer reporting companies, including employment screening companies, with their contact details.^23,26,30
• According to the Clean Slate Initiative, 14 states and Washington, D.C. have passed Clean Slate laws that meet its criteria for automatically clearing eligible records: Pennsylvania, Utah, New Jersey, Connecticut, Michigan, Delaware, Virginia, California, Oklahoma, Colorado, Minnesota, New York, Illinois, and Missouri, plus D.C.³¹
• The Federal Bonding Program, run by the U.S. Department of Labor, lets states give employers free fidelity bonds that protect them against losses from a newly hired worker's dishonest acts, for job seekers with past justice involvement or in recovery from substance use.^32,33

See whether you can clear your record in your state