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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Abril-Rivera v. Johnson, 806 F.3d 599 (2015)

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Abril-Rivera v. Johnson, 806 F.3d 599 (2015)
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Abril-Rivera v. Johnson, 806 F.3d 599 (2015)
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2015-11-17

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What is striking about this second round of complaints is the curious chain of events that began only two months after these filings. In June 2007, the agency’s Occupational, Safety & Health Office performed an uncommon inspection of the PR Center’s premises. For the first time in twelve years it carried out a Management Evaluation and Technical Assistance Review (“METAR”). While multiple building deficiencies and safety needs were found in this 2007 METAR, by the time FEMA performed a follow-up building review in May 2008, most of the deficiencies had been properly addressed and corrected. In the meantime, FEMA’s Puerto Rican employees continued their battle for equal pay. The second round of discrimination complaints that had been filed shortly before the 2007 METAR were dismissed in February 2008, following a denial of class certification. Instead, the FEMA administrative judge ordered the complainants to *613re-file their claims individually, which Plaintiffs contend that they did. B. Procedural History