EEOC taking longer to complete appeals, hearings, investigations

Federal Times

Aug. 20, 2012 - 04:45PM |

By STEPHEN LOSEY

Significantly more federal employees are taking their discrimination cases all the way to the appeals process — and the time to resolve those appeals has stretched by 30 percent to more than a year, according to newly released data.
Most discrimination cases filed last year alleged reprisal as their basis, as has been the case for at least the last decade. Federal employees frequently alleged they were discriminated against because of their age or because they are black.

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