Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Training

The Workforce Commission Civil Rights Division offers a variety of comprehensive, interactive training programs.

What Are Our Trainings?

They provide supervisors and managers practical understanding of the impact of EEO law on employment decisions in complying with the law.

Topics

Our training programs cover the following legal issues:

• EEO law
• Personnel transactions covered under EEO law
• Steps of the investigative process
• Employer defenses
• Complaint processing
• Discrimination against persons with disabilities
• Criteria to measure compliance with EEO law
• Guidelines for hiring, evaluations, disciplinary action, terminations and layoffs
• Recent court decisions
• Sexual harassment

Benefits to the Employer

• Reduces the number of complaints which reduces costs
• An understanding of how EEO law works
• An understanding of how to respond to EEO complaints
• Clarification of employer's and employee's responsibilities
• Improvement in management decision making

Where Are Our Trainings?

We provide the training at requestors site at a minimum cost. The length of the training varies from four to eight hours depending on the training program to be delivered.

For Information and Scheduling

Texas Workforce Commission
Civil Rights Division
1117 Trinity Street, Rm. 144-T
Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 463-2642