Equal Employment Opportunity is the LAW

This recipient is prohibited from discriminating on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, political affiliation or belief, and for beneficiaries only, citizenship or participation in programs funded under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), as amended, (WIA), in admission or access to opportunity or treatment in, or employment in the administration of or in connection with, any WIA-Funded program or activity.

If you think you have been subjected to discrimination under a WIA-funded program or activity, you may file a compliant within 180 days from the date of the alleged violation with the recipients Equal Opportunity Office (or the person designated for this purpose), or you may file a complaint directly with the Director, Civil Rights Center, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue N.W., Room N-4123, Washington, D.C.  20210.

If you elect to file your complaint with the recipient, you must wait until the recipient issues a decision or until 60 days have passed, whichever is sooner, before filing with DCR (see address above).

If the recipient has not provided you with a written decision within 60 days of the filing of the complaint, you need not wait for a decision to be issued, but may file a complaint with DCR within 30 days of the expiration of the 60-day period.

If you are dissatisfied with the recipient’s resolution of your compliant, you may file a complaint with DCR.  Such a complaint must be filed within 30 days of the date you received notice of the recipient’s proposed solution.

 Grievance/Complaint Procedures