Q&A
Drop in pre-complaint interventions for employment-related cases in FY 24
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Council Member Williams inquires about the significant drop in pre-complaint interventions for employment-related cases in FY 24. Deputy Commissioner Carroll explains the reasons for this decrease and the shift in focus.
- Pre-complaint interventions for employment cases dropped from over 115 in FY 2019-2020 to only 6 in FY 24
- CCHR focuses on cases where pre-complaint intervention is likely to be successful
- Recent focus has shifted to source of income and disability in housing, where violations are more concrete and absolute
- Employment discrimination often requires full investigations due to its nuanced and insidious nature
Nantasha M. Williams
0:32:41
The commission has previously stated that it prioritizes precomplaint interventions to resolve cases before they reach the complaint stage, which can help achieve immediate relief for those suffering from ongoing discrimination.
0:32:55
However, the share of employment related precomplaint interventions dropped significantly in f y 24, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage.
0:33:04
For example, there were more than a 115 precomplaint interventions related to employment in fiscal years 2019 and in 2020, but only 8 in f y 23 and 6 in f y 24.
0:33:18
Can you tell us what led to that drop?
Katherine Carroll
0:33:24
To explain a little bit about our precomplaint process, when we evaluate whether a case is, a good candidate for that, we look at our, likelihood in being able to be successful in doing a pre complaint intervention into whether we, will choose to take it down that path or not.
0:33:39
In, f y 22, as people in f y 21, as people were returning to work and there were more requests about related to COVID and remote work, we had a sense that that was an area where we could get involved with pre complaint work and be very successful in helping, employers and employees navigate the return to work and how it interplayed with disability.
0:33:59
As we've moved past that, we've really been focusing the work on source of income, and disability in housing because it's an area where, there's still very, concrete and absolute violations that are occurring.
0:34:12
And so we're able to turn around negotiation more quickly.
0:34:16
In the employment space, there's a lot lot more nuanced and insidious discrimination that requires a full investigation for us to move forward on.
0:34:24
But we are explore exploring other ways to increase our pre complaint work as, the agencies continuing to move forward.
