Return to Home PageEEOC FIELD REPOSITIONING PLAN
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) expects to vote at its meeting on July 8, 2005 on a plan to reposition the Commission's field structure to enhance the agency's enforcement presence and improve customer service and public access.
We invited the public to submit comments on the proposal before that vote. Comments were to be submitted by June 17, 2005. The comment period has closed. Comments are being carefully considered and shared with all Commissioners.
The plan is an internal realignment and will not affect the way the public does business with the agency. The public may continue to call, visit and write to EEOC offices as they always have. Charging parties may continue to file charges in any convenient EEOC office.
Under the proposal, there will be no layoffs of employees, no offices will close, and two new offices will be opened. The plan advances the President's expectations of every executive-branch agency, which is to run a well managed, highly efficient, customer-centered, and results-driven organization. Specifically, this plan calls for expanding jurisdictional areas of district offices, which will take from 23 to 15 the number of offices headed by district directors and regional attorneys. The Commission is expanding its number of field offices, from one (1) to nine (9), and will also have 15 area offices and 14 local offices, including two local offices that will be established to respond to the growing population of workers in Mobile, Alabama, and Las Vegas, Nevada. The plan reduces the number of managers and administrators and increases front-line staff conducting investigations, mediations and litigation, and providing outreach educational services to the community - delivering a more streamlined and efficient structure with better, faster service and more public access.
The Commission has been engaged in a comprehensive review of its organizational structure and operations for three years. The field structure proposal is the second of three repositioning efforts to put the Commission in a more viable position to carry out its mission, given shifting demographics, a changing business environment, explosive technological advancements, and budgetary considerations. The first effort involved establishing a National Contact Center, on a pilot basis, as the agency strives to better serve members of the public. The third phase will involve a more streamlined Washington headquarters, with well-defined lines of responsibilities and clarification of roles.
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