Project One Voice
EEOWhat is your
Experience With the US Postal Service
Agency EEO Office?
An EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint is a Civil Rights
complaint of discrimination. To remain in the process
and avoid dismissal your complaint must state:
When you file your complaint with the USPS file a notarized EEO complaint immediately with NAACP, a
civil rights organization for people of all color, and Project
One Voice who seek to preserve the integrity of the Civil Rights
Act, and end the retaliation and abuse to all workers.
The US Postal Service's EEO office is not the
Washington DC EEOC. You may issue an appeal to the EEOC when you believe
you are faced with injustice, retaliation and bias from the Agency
EEO office.
Read and learn the EEO MD110. Order it from the Government
Printing Office by telephone. The link to the EEO MD110 is listed
below and on the internet. This is the
book that governs how the US Postal Service EEO's Office should
handle your complaint. Know your rights.
Do your paperwork for the US Postal Service EEO office, but file your complaint immediately with the NAACP as they
are for civil rights and people of all color. Notify BIG
(Blacks in Government) by filing a complaint with them also.
Learn the meaning of the word "basis" as it pertains to race,
religion, gender, etc. discrimination. Discrimination is
"different treatment" so look around and see how you were
treated differently in terms of adverse actions of discipline,
etc. Keep names, dates, and times documented.
Learn how to write up your complaint stating
factor/basis discrimination, issues, and harm to you
concisely and succinctly.
Learn that harm must be alleged and at the administrative
hearing or in a federal civil suit you get to prove it.
Learn that their continuous requests for evidence and paperwork
is often a deliberate attempt to tire you, and delay the process.
They are required to investigate properly without delay. Process
delayed is justice denied.
Learn that many of us opine that the EEO office of the
US Postal Service is a "front" for what is obligated of the
USPS in terms of Civil Rights. Experience has shown it to
be a closed door since as an internal avenue that
could with proper investigation
and authorization end the discrimination at the earliest level
it makes every possible effort in our opinion to obtain your facts
and the Agency begins cover up of the facts to stop the process and
squash your complaint.
Learn that the US Postal Service has a great interest in
appearing like an "Equal Opportunity Employer". Politically it
is required by Congress to lower the number of its discrimination
complaints to pass Postal Reform.
They have a deep thirst to
survive as a federal mail monopoly and needs a part of private
business too. Read about Postal Reform to familiarize yourself
with where the squashing of EEO complaints helps to pass Postal
Reform.
Read the GAO reports that SHOW that
the US Postal Service is reporting false figures and information
and claiming "we erred." Click over to the GAO links.
Read the MD110 and understand the entire process of EEO.
Know your deadlines. Mail certified return receipt
to prove deadline dates, but understand they control the
mail and your receipts.
Documentation Be sure to begin keeping documentation
on all that has been said to you in a log. Put date, time, and
names of possible witnesses. Keep three copies of chrono logs. Kept
in date order you will have one for you. One for future attorney.
One for the Postal Service in discovery. Keep all originals
with you and not your attorney or anyone else.
Witness? Someone promise to be your witness?
Get that statement immediately and it is recommended you have
them write it in their own words. Type it up, and take them
to a notary to sign for you. Witnesses have a tendency to
forget with time or change their minds about helping you
depending up on their own fears of retaliation.
Whenever you are telephoned it doesn't mean that you have any
evidence. Follow up with a written letter back to the individual
on what was said to
you on this phone call.
Check out via internet sources if you are legally permitted to tape telephone
calls in your particular state and begin to tape your conversations.
The spaces on the EEO forms are conveniently created small so that you
cannot ask for remedy. Be sure to add an attachment where there is no
room, and then ask for everything under the statutory caps.
Remedy one may ask for: Pecuniary, non pecuniary, compensatory,
emotional, and punitive damages; attorney costs, medical costs; rehabilitation
to a new position, front pay, back pay, future pay, 10% IRS interest compounded
daily, letters of apology, postings within your workplace of apology,
If you are open to resolution in the early process of the EEO complaint
you may add a comment to please investigate, correct and resolve so as to bring
prompt resolution to avoid continuing to an administrative hearing.
Recommend is giving absolutely no extensions of 30 days to the
process of investigation since they prolong the process and keep
you hanging in the EEO process for months and years as it is.
Recommended is no ADR meetings. Those who give their bad experience
of Redress state at the meeting it is one thing, and
those promises never occur prolonging the
the EEO process and retaliation.
Right to Sue Letter When you file an EEO you wait
for the "Right to Sue Letter" which gives you the right to file a
federal civil suit. This letter does not arrive with this title.
This letter arrives as your PARTIAL OR FINAL AGENCY DECISION.
After you have filed your Request for Formal investigation you
begin to count 180 days. 180 days after your request if the Agency
has not issued you a Final Agency Decision you have the
right to go straight to federal court. There you may seek a court
appointed attorney. Visit the US District Court before you need to
and learn your rights.
PARTIAL AGENCY DECISION If you receive a partial
decision because the US Postal Service's EEO office has dismissed
your issue you may go straight to federal court and file a civil
suit.
Personal experience has shown the US Postal Service Agency EEO
office dropping issues that are powerful in a case against the
US Postal Service. If you have alleged discrimination, stated the
issues, and alleged the harm read the MD110 to know your rights on
their refusal to promptly investigate, prevent and correct.
The courts look to see if the Agency has promptly investigated,
prevented and corrected all problems of discrimination that fall
under an EEO.
One postal woman alleges she had a local law enforcement break in of
her home under the guise of searching for drugs, and what was removed
were all her postal litigation papers. Suggested is your placing your files
and paperwork in a safe place away from your residence.
