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6/18/2025
To: GENEROSA TABOR
INVESTIGATOR
Re: Mr. Reinaldo Olavarria v. Wake County Government Human Resources
EEOC Charge Number: 433-2025-00996
CC: Wake County Human Resources
Date: 6/18/2025
Charging Document Allegations
This is from Reinaldo Olavarria whom is making the allegation of discrimination in the hiring practices of Wake County Government Human Services. To that end, I will allege the county does not use open and competitive hiring practices. The county does not hire persons with disabilities. The county has preferential treatment towards persons of Black race and disdain towards Hispanic persons. I applied for numerous positions and most were filled with non-disabled persons. In social services positions, the county prefers young females. I will provide the grounds for my belief discrimination continues and does is line with what our president says.
Since 2015, I repeatedly inquired of the county if it uses open and competitive hiring practices for the recruitment of new employees. As late as April 2025, the county was in receipt of follow up inquiries on this matter (see attached supporting documents). The county refuses to implement a non-discriminatory hiring practice and/or a practice to ensure their workforce is diverse. To that end, upon inquiry, upon investigation, it was found that at two specific locations in particular, the South Wilmington Center for Men in Raleigh and the Social Services building located at 220 Swinburne Street, that no employees, permanent, full-time, were ever observed to be hired thereat over the past 10 years, that use wheelchairs and/or have specific mobility impairments or physical disabilities that require things like the use of wheelchairs or mobility aids. Recent videos, photos, and other media releases from Wake County Human Services all support the conclusion that persons with mobility impairments are not being hired at the county as evidenced by their absence in media releases and things like recruitment drives and photos.
As of May 2025, when I went for an interview for a Case Aide position at Swinburne Street, it was still found that there is a noticeable lack of persons with physical disabilities that were hired at social services. Continuing with site visits to the South Wilmington Center for Men, it remains to be seen persons with physical disabilities working thereat while it presents there are many persons with mobility impairments to include wheelchair users that use the center. That includes visits in June 2025. I encountered again an all Black recruitment team in May 2025 while at Swinburne for an interview, and no one on the interviewing team was physically disabled. The only prior recruitment interview at Swinburne street also was composed of all Black recruiters and in that situation the majority were female.
I applied for numerous positions and here is to cite some examples of discrimination. At the South Wilmington Center for Men and the Wake County Housing Department that runs that center, I applied several times for positions as a Guest Services Technician, upper administrative support staff, and administrative positions within the housing department. The outcomes were continuous hiring for non-disabled persons at both locations. Our Honorable President Donald Trump highlighted the fact that at times “the best person” needs to be hired for the job and not Diversity and Inclusion Hiring. Here is the point, upon inquiry for example, Morgan Mansa was hired for the position of the director of the Housing Program, while it presents she is Black, while it presents she is young, while presents she is female, while it presents she is not physically disabled, while it presents I had more experience in housing than she did, while it presents she is not Hispanic. Again, here, at the Housing Department and the South Wilmington Center for Men, it presents persons with physical disabilities are discriminated against. Guest Humans Services Technicians and administrative supervisory positions are still continuously being filed with non-disabled, non-Hispanic persons and not using the model of open and competitive hiring. To that end, Wake County vests its hiring authority into individual hiring managers that are often administrators that present as using their personal prejudices and nepotism and other discriminatory hiring practices when recruiting. Bottom line is what is found when you have Blacks occupy many high level positions and when you come across names like K. Warren whom may be related to Scott Warren the county attorney. South Wilmington Street Center for Men in the past two months recruited employees whom are not disabled, etc.. Donald Trump embraces hiring his friends, and that expressed practices has been a part of the Wake County Government Hiring practice for over twenty years before he even came on the seen. Wake County Human Resources does not use open and competitive hiring and does not ensure a diverse workforce. That is the allegation. It allows employees to recruit using their discriminatory preferences. Again, I continuously asked whom was hired for the positions I applied for and only heard the deafening sounds of crickets as in no response from the county to this issue even when it was raised during commissioner meetings (please see www.Wakecountyfails.com ).
Do not blame the victim here. The county uses discriminatory hiring practice. One example is continuing to allow Frank Lawrence to hire is friends and/or family members of his friends, etc.. I must say this in passing, the county has been cited thereby for creating a hostile work environment. Recently, this month, I received a call for assistance with regards to an employee whom faced termination because the county lacks the supervision and support at various locations. The claim was now the duties of county employees are being expanded way pass their job descriptions and under fear of retribution employees are performing tasks outside of their job description. Law enforcement training and positions differ from transportation training and positions and that also differs from Intake positions. Hence, asking for someone whom is only a case manager, for example, to search and seize for drugs to also have the insights of a nurse, doctor, or physician assistant is unreasonable. The point here is to show that Human Resources is not taking lead and oversight in ensuring the county is not using discriminatory hiring practices and not going beyond employment standards overall. Morgan Mansa clearly is someone recently out of school. Frank Lawence continues to hire his friends. Human resource continues to lack accountability and even respond to letters published and directed towards them, when typically responses would be received. Hence, the county is deliberately engaging in acts to conceal its discriminatory hiring practices most evidently noted by “not even responding to letters” and publications. “We just will not tell you whom was hired for the positions” is their way of concealing their actions.
One last point to be clear, March 2002, I was hired as a Medicaid Worker (event over Ten years should never be a part of any hiring decisions overall or limitation thereof). I resigned that position in July 2003. Left the county for full time employment with Urban Ministries. I came back to the county in November 2003. I worked in CPS and was discriminated against being a male in that position and not being offered supports and suffered a wrongful termination then by Wake County in 2005. That was during the time when Wake County was in the practice of hiring lesbian workers in CPS in my unit whom expressed disdain towards males. The wrongful termination was with regards to “looking up” my daughter’s daycare information that I had a legal right to during lunch hours. However, the county went back and falsified county records to the extent that it even listed that I “was terminated” from the Medicaid/Food Stamps position [as recorded in a previous EEOC response], when in fact I resigned because Marisol Ortiz was denying Medicaid and Food Stamp applications illegally (as in wrongful closures of applications). The county has a history of criminal negligence in terms of its employment practices. Also, note I feel like because I filed a Workman’s compensation claim and ADA claim against Durham County DSS, that is being used by Wake County Human Resources to discriminate against my person.
A final position inquiry is being make to Wake County Human Resources today with an questionnaire for each position I applied for with Wake County. Again, it is hard going to a place of employment and not seeing persons with wheelchairs “with a badge on them” working for the county. The discriminatory practice of quite evident. Today, Wake County Human Resources will be in receipted of a summary inquiry with regards to the positions I applied for.
Reinaldo Olavarria, Sociology, BA, Political Science, MA, Elder
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