It is against the law for any recipient of Federal financial
assistance from the U.S. Department of Labor under Title I of the Workforce
Investment Act (WIA) to discriminate on the following bases:
- Against any individual in the United States, on the basis of
race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, political
affiliation of belief; and
- Against any beneficiary of programs on the basis of the
beneficiary's citizenship/ status as a lawfully admitted immigrant authorized
to work in the United States, or his or her participation in any WIA Title I
financially assisted program or activity.
The recipient must not discriminate in any of the following
areas:
- Deciding who will be admitted, or have access, to any WIA
Title I financially assisted program or activity;
- Providing opportunities in, or treating any person with
regard to, such a program or activity; or
- Making employment decisions in the administration of, or in
connection with, such a program or activity. What to Do If You Believed You
Have Experienced Discrimination
If you think that you have been subjected to discrimination
under a WIA Title 1-financially assisted program or activity, you may file a
complaint within 180 days from the date of the alleged violation with either
the U.S. Department of Labor recipient, or the U.S. Department of Labor's Civil
Rights Center, using the Complaint Information Form (CIF) below.Copies of the
CIF may be obtained by contacting the Civil Rights Center. Each State is
required to designate a person to serve as an Equal Opportunity Officer, and
make known the name of the person to the public. The address of the U.S.
Department of Labor's Civil Rights Center is listed below:
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Director Civil Rights Center U.S. Department of
Labor Room N-4123 200 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20210
Voice: (202) 693-6502 TTY (202) 693-6515 e-mail |
The Civil Rights Center can also provide the name and contact
information of any State-level WIA Equal Opportunity Officer. If you file your
complaint with the recipient, you must wait either until the recipient issues a
written Notice of Final Action, or until 90 days have passed (whichever is
sooner), before filing with the Civil Rights Center.
If the recipient does not give you a written Notice of Final
Action within 90 days of the day on which you filed your complaint, you do not
have to wait for the recipient to issue that Notice before filing a complaint
with Civil Rights Center. However, you must file your Civil Rights Center
complaint within 30 days of the 90-day deadline (in other words, within 120
days after the day on which you filed your complaint with the recipient).
Complaints must be filed within 180 days of the
date of the alleged discrimination, unless the time for filing is extended by
the Director for good cause shown.
CIF in English
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CIF in Spanish
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