Employees and/or Applicants for employment can file a complaint if they believe they were discriminated against because of their: Race, Sex, National Origin, Color, Religion, Disability, Age, and/or sexual retaliation. View Commissioner Marin's Reaffirmation of EEO policy statement.

The Aggrieved must contact Cecilia Rubio, EEO Specialist at 915-832-4112 for assignment of an EEO Counselor. The contact must be within 45 days from the date of the alleged incident.

The EEO counselor has 30 days to conduct the informal inquiry. The role of the counselor is to assist the aggrieved and management in resolving the complaint. If no resolution is reached, during the 30 days, the counselor will issue the aggrieved a “Notice of Right to File a Complaint”. The Aggrieved has 15 days, from receipt of this Notice, to file a formal complaint.

The Formal Complaint must be in writing. If the Agency accepts the complaint, it then has 180 days to conduct an investigation. After the investigation, the complainant may elect a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge or an Agency Decision. The complainant can either accept the agency decision or appeal the decision to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. For more information, employees should consult the IBWC directive, "Proceedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accomodation."

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

The International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) has adopted mediation as the ADR process. When the aggrieved requests a counselor from the IBWC EEO office, he/she will be afforded the opportunity to request ADR. The request must be in writing. If ADR is accepted, the IBWC EEO office will secure a mediator and the time period for this process will be extended to 90 days. If ADR is not accepted, the traditional pre-complaint process will be utilized.

Mediation is the intervention in a dispute, by an impartial and neutral third party, who has no decision making authority. The objective of this intervention is to assist the parties to voluntarily reach an acceptable resolution of the issues in dispute. A mediator, makes procedural suggestions regarding how parties can reach agreement. Mediators differ in their degree of directiveness or control in their assistance with disputing parties. Mediation is a voluntary, confidential process.

If resolution is reached, a written agreement will be signed by the parties ending the complaint process. If no resolution is reached, the aggrieved will be issued a “Notice of Right to file a Formal Complaint” and has 15 days to file a Formal Complaint.


EEO Data Posted Pursuant to the No FEAR Act updated January 2008 Available in .pdf or html format.	Office of the Legal Advisor Visit the U.S. IBWC's Legal Adivsor's page..
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