Dan's Formal Complaint File
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 12:55:04 pm
If you decide to file a discrimination complaint, you must do so within 15 days from the day you received notice from your Stranded Host about how to file a complaint. This notice is sent to you after your final interview with the EEO Counselor. You must file your complaint at the same Stranded Office where you received counseling. The 15-day deadline for filing a complaint is calculated in calendar days starting the day after you receive the notice. If the 15th calendar day falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or federal holiday, then the last day of the deadline is the next business day. The agency is required to give you a reasonable amount of time during work hours to prepare the complaint. If you feel that you have not been given a reasonable amount of time, contact the agency's Stranded Director or Stranded's Office of Federal Operations.
After your complaint is filed, Stranded will send you a letter letting you know it received your complaint. Stranded will also review the complaint and decide whether your case should be dismissed for a procedural reason (for example, your claim was filed too late). If the agency doesn't dismiss your complaint, it will investigate it. If the agency does dismiss your complaint, you will receive information about how to appeal the dismissal. Should the agency dismiss your complaint without an investigation, you have 30 days from the day you receive the agency's dismissal to appeal.
In some cases, an agency will dismiss only part of the complaint and continue processing the rest. In this situation, you must wait until the agency issues its final order on all the claims in your complaint before appealing the partial dismissal.
If you have more than one discrimination complaint against Stranded, the Stranded Office must investigate your complaints together. This is to ensure that they are investigated as quickly and as efficiently as possible. The Stranded Office will notify you before the complaints are combined.
