Most of Unpaid Youth Workers Work @ EP County
Last week’s revelation by the Upper Rio Grande Workforce Solutions that 30 youth didn’t receive pay came as a shock to at least one member of El Paso County Commissioner’s Court.
It turns out that 22 of the reported 30 youth that did not receive pay work at the El Paso County Courthouse. According to an interview with KVIA, the Upper Rio Grande Workforce Solutions (URGWS) characterized the non-payments as a result of “missing documentation by the young employees.”
El Paso County Commissioner Anna Perez sees it much differently. Perez said that the pay issues were more likely the fault of the URGWS, rather than that of the students. “Workforce Solutions was just not prepared logistically.”
Perez said that she’s spoken with the El Paso County Human Resources Director Betsy Keller and after speaking with her regarding the pay of the youth, Perez went on to say that the system to gather the necessary paperwork from the youth on the part of URGWS was “logistically not coordinated”.
Perez said she was going to contact members of the URGWS board to bring these issues to their attention.
“As an attorney, I feel this is extremely egregious.” She went on to say that she felt that as an attorney she had an added level of responsibility to ensure that these youth get their pay.
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