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Paraprofessional urges board to provide staff advocate or HR recourse; says issue affects multiple employees
Summary
A special-education paraprofessional told the board there is no confidential HR advocate or neutral office for staff complaints and urged the district to investigate; she said the problem has caused stress and financial harm and that multiple staff are affected.
During the meeting’s public-comment period, Valerie Borrego, who identified herself as a 1980 Blue Ridge graduate and a special-education paraprofessional, asked the board to investigate what she described as an ongoing problem: staff who have workplace complaints lack an independent human-resources advocate to whom they can bring concerns.
Borrego said she and about half a dozen other staff members have raised issues that remain unresolved because “there’s nobody that they can tell me who can help me.”…
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