Texas Workforce Commission

TWC works with 28 Local Workforce Development Boards to provide employment assistance and promote self-sufficiency for customers.

The TCHRA/chapter 21 of the Texas Labor Code empowers the TWC similar to the federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) with analogous responsibilities at the state level.

These included: In 2018, the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities threatened to sue because TWC staff were not offering to help Texans with disabilities receiving VR services register to vote or updating voter registration information under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act.

[4] TWC Staff later agreed to provide the services in a letter signed by the Texas Secretary of State.

[5] In 2013, a Fort Worth TWC employee was sentenced to six years in federal prison for identity theft and mail fraud.