January 16, 2013 - Texas Workforce Commission

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1 CHAIRMAN ANDERSON: Seeing none.
2 AGENDA ITEM NO. 6
3 MR. BABIAK: Okay. That brings us to
4 No. 6: Discussion, Consideration, and Possible Action
5 Regarding the Quarterly Report Concerning the Texas
6 Workforce Commission Civil Rights Division Housing
7 Enforcement Alternative Dispute Resolution and
8 Outreach Activities for the First Quarter of Fiscal
9 Year 2013. And for this item, I think Vickie
10 Covington will be coming to the podium.
11 MS. COVINGTON: Good morning, Chair,
12 Commissioners, TWC staff, and guests. For the record,
13 my name is Vickie Covington. I'm the Manager of ADR
14 Housing Enforcement -- ADR and Housing Enforcement.
15 Our employment investigators and
16 mediators recovered more than $270,000 in relief for
17 complainants. In addition, people have also received
18 nonmonetary relief, such as change in their discharge
19 status from termination or -- from discharge to
20 resignation. During the -- the first quarter of the
21 fiscal year there were also several approvals of a
22 request for a reasonable accomodation and public
23 interest -- interest relief in the form of training
24 for respondents. Nearly three out of four mediation
25 conferences held resulted in successful resolutions,