LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — 4 girls who labored beneath disgraced public administrator Robert Telles, who’re suing the county claiming a hostile work setting, are calling a $100,000 settlement provide “disrespectful.”
Clark County commissioners authorised the attainable settlement with the ladies Tuesday, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported, providing the mixed sum to be break up among the many group.
Telles, 48, the previous Clark County public administrator, killed Las Vegas Assessment-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, 69, in 2022 after German wrote unflattering tales about Telles and the workplace he ran. The Clark County Public Administrator’s Workplace administers the estates of the deceased whereas a search is performed to discover a member of the family or executor.
A jury discovered Telles responsible final summer time. The panel, together with a choose, sentenced him to a minimal of 28 years in jail. Proof at trial included the truth that police discovered Telles’ DNA beneath German’s fingernails.
4 of Telles’ former workers later filed a federal grievance, claiming Telles created a hostile work setting earlier than his arrest and later elimination from his elected place. They discovered of the settlement provide from the 8 Information Now Investigators’ reporting, a press release mentioned, calling it a “disrespectful settlement proposal.”
“The public nature of this apparent settlement offer feels very much like a tactic to undermine and invalidate the discrimination, harassment and bullying we endured while working under Robert Telles,” the ladies mentioned Friday. “This offer is a reflection of the county’s culture of deflection and inaction.”
The 4 girls mentioned Telles discriminated, harassed, and retaliated in opposition to them after they reported his conduct to the county, the lawsuit mentioned. When Telles turned conscious of formal complaints about him, he allegedly retaliated in opposition to the workers concerned.
“The county failed to protect us when we reported these problems to them, resulting in a hostile work environment and life-altering trauma, and what happened is again being minimized.”
The approval got here on the fee’s consent agenda Tuesday and there was no dialogue or debate. The assertion to eight Information Now on Friday didn’t say if the ladies have been rejecting the provide, nor did it speak extra in regards to the pending case.
