Note: Single-source report; awaiting corroboration.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reaffirms its commitment to equal employment opportunity (EEO), ensuring a workplace free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Discrimination based on race, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or retaliation for protected EEO activity is prohibited in all aspects of employment.
This protection covers all management practices and decisions, including recruitment, hiring, promotions, training, career development, benefits, transfers, reassignments, and separations. Employees are encouraged to report any discrimination or harassment promptly to management officials or directly to the DOE Office of Equal Employment Opportunity or their local EEO office.
To preserve the right to use the EEO complaint process, employees or applicants must contact the DOE EEO office within 45 calendar days of the alleged discrimination or when they became aware of it.
Under the Elijah E. Cummings Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act of 2020, federal agencies like DOE must post findings of discrimination against them on their public websites for at least one year. This Act strengthens anti-discrimination laws enforced by the EEOC and increases agency accountability.