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 EO Issues and Bases
(05/31/2006)EO Bases:
Each complaint of employment discrimination must identify at least one employment practice being challenged and must include at least one basis. The basis of a complaint refers to protected status (i.e., race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or retaliation
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Types of Discrimination ) ), which a complainant believes is the reason that the employment action. In general, claims of employment discrimination are actionable in the Federal EO process only if the alleged basis for the discrimination is one that has been made unlawful by Congress in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ) , the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
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Age Discrimination in Employment Act ) , the Equal Pay Act
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Equal Pay Act ) or the federal Rehabilitation Act
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Rehabilitation Act ) . However, in addition to the bases that are unlawful under those federal laws, federal government policy also prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation
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Sexual orientation ) , parental status
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Parental status ) , and genetic testing
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Genetic testing ) , although complaints involving these alleged bases do not fall under the regulatory control of the EEOC. EO Issues:
An issue is an allegation that an employment practice or policy is unlawful under Federal employment law and for which, if the allegation is proven, there is a remedy under the law. In general, complaints must allege that the complainant has suffered an adverse employment action as a result of his/her protected status. |
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