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An EEO complaint enters the formal complaint stage when it is filed with DOCR after the completion of the pre-complaint stage and receipt of the "Notice of Right to File a Discrimination Complaint (Notice)". The complainant has 15-calendar days from receipt of this Notice to file a formal...
A Federal sector complainant has to first exhaust the administrative process set out at 29 CFR 1614 before filing a civil suit. The regulations provide that civil actions may be filed in an appropriate federal court:
Within 90-calendar days of...Requirements for Class Complaints
Class complaints are processed differently than individual(s) complaints (29 CFR 1614.204). The pre-complaint stage process is the same. Once a formal complaint is filed, the class complaint will be forwarded to the nearest EEOC Washington Field Office...
Some employment discrimination complaints can be appealed to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). In these cases, the employee has to choose to keep on with the complaint as a "mixed case complaint" (under 29 CFR 1614) or a "mixed case appeal" before the MSPB. Whichever gets filed...
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