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| Subject: Licensed 'professionals': We were deciding the fates of people under laws we didn't fully understand Fri Nov 12, 2021 11:05 pm | |
| Former unemployment judges, staff alarmed by ethical problems, turnover in Indiana agency
Stephen Terrell quit after working one day as an unemployment judge. He'd do more harm than good if he stayed, he decided.
"The problem was this: none of us knew what the hell we were doing when we started to hear these cases," said Terrell, a lawyer with 40 years of experience hired as a contract judge specifically to help with the backlog.
The week and a half of training he had on unemployment law was insufficient. But worse, he was immediately given a heavy workload despite his lack of familiarity with unemployment law.
"We as lawyers have an ethical responsibility to not do something that we are not competent in," he said. "And here we were deciding the fates of people under laws we didn't fully understand, being told to make sure we decide six in a day. Don't get behind."
.https://www.indystar.com/story/money/2021/11/12/indiana-unemployment-former-judges-alarmed-ethical-problems-turnover-dwd-workforce-development/8556377002/
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