The Boston Water and Sewer Fee has been in “extensive contact” with union representatives whose membership expressed issues with the “severe” allegations leveled towards the company’s human assets director in two lawsuits.
The Fee confirmed it was in discussions with union representatives regarding the issues they raised about HR director Marie Theodat in a letter despatched to BWSC Govt Director Henry Vitale final Friday, however didn’t elaborate as as to whether it would heed the unions’ request to analyze and droop Theodat.
“BWSC has been in extensive contact with union representatives and we have no further comment at this time,” Dolores Randolph, a spokesperson for the Fee, stated in a Monday assertion.
Three unions representing BWSC staff, SEIU Native 888, IAM Native 100, and OPEIU Native 6, talked about of their letter that membership had expressed issues with Theodat, as HR director, having continued entry to their delicate info, comparable to banking numbers, routing info and social safety numbers — in mild of allegations raised in two separate lawsuits filed towards her in Suffolk Superior Court docket.
Their letter known as for that info to be “entrusted to the legal department at BWSC, until the senior HR director in question be placed on administrative leave pending the conclusion of an internal investigation or the resolution of this civil matter.”
Thomas McKeever, president of SEIU Native 888, declined to touch upon the continuing talks on Monday.
“Honestly, if this were our members, they would sincerely be terminated,” McKeever instructed the Herald Saturday. “We would have to grieve it, and then they would be out on unpaid administrative leave. We feel as though these allegations are so severe that the Boston Water and Sewer leadership should take some type of action.
“We’re flabbergasted that this particular individual is just walking around and it’s just business as usual — we’re confused,” McKeever stated, including, “I’ve never seen so many allegations pile up.”
Theodat is accused in a 2020 lawsuit of stiffing a lady out of a $75,000 mortgage mortgage, allegations that turned public in a Herald report final Friday — only a week after the Herald first reported that Theodat is embroiled in a brand new lawsuit that alleges she labored with family to swindle her aged, dementia-ridden uncle out of his dwelling.
The newest grievance — filed in Suffolk Superior Court docket on Aug. 20 — alleges that Theodat “fraudulently induced” the plaintiff, 88-year-old Rodolphe St. Cloud, to signal over the deed to his $1.1 million Dorchester dwelling for “less than $100,” below the “guise” that he was signing paperwork associated to his medical care. St. Cloud doesn’t learn or communicate English, however fairly Haitian Creole.
Mayor Michelle Wu’s workplace didn’t reply to a request for touch upon Monday.
Theodat’s annual wage on the Boston Water and Sewer Fee is roughly $189,958, per a BWSC spokesperson. She known as the Aug. 20 grievance “fraudulent” in a previous telephone name with the Herald, and denied borrowing the $75,000 from the plaintiff within the 2020 lawsuit, in accordance with prior courtroom paperwork.
