Case: Discrimination/Exhaustion of Remedies (Tex. App., 14th Dist)

A discharged employee of BBVA Compass Bank, N.A. failed to exhaust his administrative remedies for his age discrimination claim under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act because he didn’t file his charge with the Texas Commission on Human Rights until more than ten months after his termination, a Texas appellate court ruled. The 180-day deadline in the Texas Labor Code wasn’t extended to the EEOC’s 300-day deadline under federal law because the EEOC’s 300-day deadline doesn’t apply to his claims under Texas law, the appeals court said, and equitable tolling is inapplicable to the deadline because the statutory filing ...