Exhaustion of Administrative Remedy
Friday, June 30, 2006
Contributed by: Dan L. Schaap
El Paso County, Texas v. Navarrete (Tex.App. Dist.8 05/18/2006)
Former county employee failed to exhaust her administrative remedies under Texas Commission on Human Rights Act as to retaliation claims against employer, and thus trial court was without jurisdiction to consider the retaliation claims that the employee added to her amended petition in sex-based employment discrimination action. The employee had not raised issue of retaliation in her prior administrative charge. Unless and until an employee timely submits her complaint to the Texas Commission on Human Rights, the courts of Texas are barred from adjudicating that complaint.
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