Under What Conditions Can a Complaint Be Filed?

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The Federal sector EEO process covers employment-related matters. Thus, if an employee has been injured or aggrieved by personnel actions of the Agency, or in the terms, privilieges or conditions of his/her employment, a complaint may be filed. The following are types of personnel matters covered:

• Hiring and firing
• Compensation, assignment, or classification of employees
• Transfer, promotion, reduction-in force (RIF)
• Job vacancy announcements
• Recruitment
• Testing
• Use of agency facilities
• Training and apprenticeship programs
• Fringe benefits
• Pay and leave
• Other terms and conditions of employment

See Laws Enforced by the EEOC:

• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
• Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

What Other Protection Do I Have?

Discriminatory practices under these laws also include:

• harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or age;
• retaliation against an individual for filing a charge of discrimination, participating in an investigation, or opposing discriminatory practices;
• employment decisions based on stereotypes or assumptions about the abilities, traits, or performance of individuals of a certain sex, race, age, religion, or ethnic group, or individuals with disabilities; and
• denying employment opportunities to a person because of marriage to, or association with, an individual of a particular race, religion, national origin, or an individual with a disability.