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====== U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ======

[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1063312|EEOC on Wikidata]]

The **U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)** is the federal agency that enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This page documents the EEOC's administrative charge process as a BPMN model.

===== EEOC Charge Process =====

This BPMN model traces an employment-discrimination charge from filing through screening, notice to the respondent, investigation, determination, and conciliation, to its possible outcomes (dismissal/right-to-sue, no-cause closure, resolution by conciliation, EEOC suit, or a Notice of Right to Sue).

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===== Process Components =====

==== Actors ====

  * **Charging party**: The individual who files the charge of discrimination.
  * **U.S. EEOC**: The agency that screens, investigates, and determines the charge.
  * **Respondent (employer)**: The employer against whom the charge is filed.

==== Key Authorities ====

  * **42 U.S.C. 2000e-5(e)(1)** — Filing deadlines (180 days; 300 in a deferral/FEPA state).
  * **42 U.S.C. 2000e-5(b)** — Notice to respondent within 10 days.
  * **42 U.S.C. 2000e-5(f)(1); 29 C.F.R. 1601.28** — Notice of Right to Sue after 180 days.
  * **Mach Mining v. EEOC, 575 U.S. 480 (2015)** — Mandatory good-faith conciliation before suit.

===== Related Models =====

  * [[mcdonnell_douglas|McDonnell Douglas Burden-Shifting Framework]] — The analytical framework courts apply to individual disparate-treatment claims that often follow an EEOC charge and right-to-sue notice.

===== Cross References =====

  * [[united_states|United States of America]]
  * [[jurisdictions|Jurisdictions]]
  * [[categories|Categories]]

===== Categories =====

Employment Discrimination, Civil Rights, Administrative Process, United States, Federal Agencies