February 28, 2024
The New Mexico public health department said that it passed on promoting a former business operations specialist supervisor because someone else was more qualified and that it terminated the worker for inappropriate behavior, urging a federal court to grant it a win in his disability bias suit.
February 09, 2023
A New Mexico federal judge said Thursday that the state's public health department can't avoid a suit claiming it fired two brothers because of their congenital kidney disease, finding the ex-employees properly filed presuit charges with the state employment bias watchdog.