To request an EEOC hearing, send your request directly to the EEOC District or Field Office that serves your geographic area within 30 calendar days of your receipt of the investigative file. Be sure to send a copy of your request to the Postal Service NEEOISO office at the same time. The addresses of both offices will be included in the letter that you receive with your investigative file.
If you request a hearing in a timely manner, the Postal Service will send your EEO complaint file to the EEOC. The EEOC then decides whether it will conduct a hearing on some or all of the issues in the case or whether an EEOC administrative judge will issue a decision based on the record in the case. In either case you will receive a decision from an EEOC administrative judge.
The EEOC administrative judge will send the hearing record, if applicable, and copies of his or her decision containing findings of fact and conclusions of law to you and to the Postal Service. The Postal Service has 40 calendar days from the date of its receipt of the administrative judge’s decision to issue you its Notice of Final Action (final action) on your EEO case.
The Postal Service’s final action may be to implement the administrative judge’s decision, in full or in part, or to decline to implement the administrative judge’s decision. If the Postal Service decides that its final action will not fully implement the administrative judge’s decision, then the Postal Service must file an appeal with the EEOC. The Postal Service will mail its final action to you and provide you with applicable appeal rights within 40 calendar days of its receipt of the administrative judge’s decision.
