Effective November 2018, the Postal Service™ revised Publication 553, Employee’s Guide to Understanding, Preventing, and Reporting Harassment, to reflect the termination of support from the current vendor of the telephone Centralized Intake System for initiating requests for Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) counseling. This service has been replaced by an online efile application. The revision to Publication 553 describes the primary and alternative process to initiate EEO counseling on the online EEO efile application.
There is also a change to the wording for “sex” discrimination, which is consistent with the EEO Commission Management Directive (EEO-MD-110), issued August 2015.
Revised Publication 553 will be available for ordering through the Material Distribution Center at a later date. Information will be forthcoming in a future Postal Bulletin article.
Publication 553 is available on the Postal Service PolicyNet website:
n Go to blue.usps.gov.
n In the left-hand column under “Essential Links,” click PolicyNet.
n Click Publications.
The direct URL for the Postal Service PolicyNet website is blue.usps.gov/cpim.
— EEO Compliance and Appeals,
Labor Relations, 12-6-18
