Return to Home PageEmployment discrimination complaints in the federal government are handled by the agency involved. If the individual who filed the complaint does not agree with the agency's decision, he or she can file an appeal with the EEOC. For more information about the federal sector process, please see Facts About Federal Sector Equal Employment Opportunity Complaint Processing Regulations (29 CFR Part 1614)
EEOC's decisions in these appeals from July, 2000 through May, 2008 are available here.
Note: Because charges outside the federal government are handled differently, there is no private sector equivalent to these decisions.
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Example - type sexual harassment to find the exact phrase sexual harassment. Since the search is not case-sensitive, this is equivalent to Sexual Harassment.
Look for two or more words at once by using the AND operator.
Example - type sex AND harassment to find documents that have both the word sex and the word harassment anywhere.
Look for words that are close to each other by using the NEAR operator instead of the AND operator. When you use NEAR, the closer together the words are, the higher the rank of the page, so the higher it appears in the list of search results.
Example - type sex NEAR harassment to match documents where the word sex is within 50 words of the word harassment.
Look for synonyms or similar words by using the OR operator. Note that if you don't use the OR operator and search using multiple words, the words are treated as a phrase.
Example - type race OR ethnicity to find the word race or the word ethnicity, but not necessarily both.
Limit your search by using the AND NOT operator to exclude words.
Example - type harassment AND NOT sexual to find all instances of harassment, as long as sexual does not also appear.
Use double quotes if you want to use AND, OR, NOT, or NEAR literally.
Example - type "race and ethnicity" to find documents with the phrase race and ethnicity. Without the double quotes, this query would use the NEAR operator instead of the phrase.
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Example - type rac* to find race, racial, racist, and so on.
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Example - type fly** to match fly, flew, flown, and flying.
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This page was last modified on June 12, 2008.