Fedweek

The notice solicited comments on issues such as what current elements should be kept or dropped, whether investigations should continue to be done by the employee’s own agency, whether the agency hearing stage should remain, what should be the time limits on the different stages of the process, and how EEOC can best enforce findings against an agency. If the past is a guide, however, any changes won’t be soon in coming: a working group convened in 1995 to examine the process resulted in some changes being made in 1999, and one convened in 2004 resulted in changes in 2012.