Phone: 678-364-6655
Blackberry: 404-519-2517
Fax: 678-364-6626
Phone: 678-364-8013
Fax: 678-364-6626
Employees and applicants must contact the EEO Office at: 700 Westpark Drive, 3rd Floor, Peachtree City, GA 30269 (phone numbers above), within 45 days of the discriminating act to begin complaint counseling. EEO counselors assigned to process informal complaints are appointed by the EEO Chief. They are not advocates for management or the complainant, but serve as an impartial third party.
DoDEA Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity (DMEO) Program
Intake Form (file an EEO complaint)
Quick Reference Guide for Managers - Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Allegations
Reasonable Accommodation Policy
Implements the amendment of section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act, under the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1992. This rule continues the movement towards full integration of individuals with disabilities into the Federal workforce.
** The ADA specifically lists "reassignment to a vacant position" as a form of reasonable accommodation. This type of reasonable accommodation must be provided to an employee who, because of a disability, can no longer perform the essential functions of his/her current position, with or without reasonable accommodation, unless the agency can show that it would be an undue hardship.
Before considering reassignment as a reasonable accommodation, the agency should first consider those accommodations that would enable an employee to remain in his/her current position. Reassignment is the reasonable accommodation of last resort and is required only after it has been determined that:
A vacant position means that the position is available when the employee asks for reasonable accommodation, or that the agency knows that it will become available. A position is considered vacant even if an employer has posted a notice or announcement seeking applications for that position. The employer does not have to bump an employee from a job in order to create a vacancy; nor does it have to create a new position.
If there is no vacant equivalent position, the employer must reassign the employee to a vacant lower level position for which the individual is qualified. Assuming there is more than one vacancy for which the employee is qualified, the employer must place the individual in the position that comes closest to the employee's current position in terms of pay, status, etc. The ADA contains no language limiting the obligation to reassign only to positions within an office, branch, agency, etc. Rather, the extent to which an agency must search for a vacant position will be an issue of undue hardship. If an employee is being reassigned to a different geographical area, the employer must pay for any relocation expenses if it routinely pays such expenses when granting voluntary transfers to other employees.
A request for reasonable accommodation and the informal interactive process are two distinct steps. The agency must engage in the interactive process if the disability or the type of accommodation needed are not obvious.