January 16, 2013 - Texas Workforce Commission

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1 record in district court of unlawful discrimination
2 and retaliation resulting in a nearly million dollar
3 judgment and another lawsuit scheduled for trial later
4 this year, TWC has been afraid that firing her would
5 be an admission of guilt. Instead, this manager is
6 allowed to continue to assure the other destruction of
7 any integrity the CRD ever had.
8 While the intake questionnaire is
9 absolutely essential to maintaining sufficient
10 inventory, it has been changed repeatedly and not for
11 the better, and the Spanish version was entirely
12 deleted. Complainants report being discouraged from
13 filing. I suspect it is because investigators and
14 their supervisors do not understand the law well
15 enough to know what a legitimate complaint is, and
16 they're afraid to attempt to write one.
17 And there is only one intake
18 investigator, and this investigator is relatively new
19 and inexperienced in employment discrimination
20 matters. It should be obvious that one intake
21 investigator cannot possibly take enough complaints to
22 supply sufficient case inventory for all employment
23 investigators. That -- that is a no-brainer.
24 Housing management is even worse. HUD
25 provided a hundred thousand dollars in additional