The Smithsonian Institution is committed to ensuring that employees, applicants for employment, former employee, and affiliated staff (e.g. interns, research associates, fellows and volunteers) are ...

If a federal employee is considering filing an equal employment opportunity complaint, alternative dispute resolution is a process available to them that could resolve their issue without litigation.

Alternative dispute resolution, a process by which a neutral third party helps parties reach an agreement without litigation, is more successful during the pre-complaint stage compared with the formal ...

Federal employee EEO complaints can involve a range of discriminatory conduct by federal agencies. These can include discrimination on the basis of age, disability, race, religion, sex, pregnancy, ...

Not every general counsel is guilty of the “intrusion challenge,” said Jorge Ponce, cochairman of the Council of Federal Equal Employment Opportunity and Civil Rights Executives, but he said it’s been ...