The Office of Equal Employment Opportunity advises and assists the Federal Election Commission Commissioners and other principle officers of the Commission in carrying out their responsibilities relative to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, and other laws, executive orders, and regulatory guidelines affecting affirmative employment and the processing of EEO complaints. The legal statutory authorities and major functions of the EEO Office are:
The EEO complaints program processes informal and formal allegations of discrimination through EEO Counseling or ADR, EEO investigations, Final Agency Decisions, appeals compliance, case statistical analysis and reporting.
Any employee or job applicant who believes that he/she has been discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or reprisal for prior EEO activity must contact an EEO Counselor within 45 calendar days of the alleged discriminatory act.
The Affirmative Employment Program is responsible for promoting equal opportunity and eliminating discriminatory practices and policies by monitoring and analyzing the Commission's personnel polices, practices, and workforce profiles.
The Special Emphasis Program is a management program. The program's primary objective is to identify barriers to the recruitment and advancement of special emphasis groups, devise solutions and draft plans to implement the solutions. The Commission's recognized special emphasis programs are:
Statistical data related to Equal Employment Opportunity complaint activity at the FEC.
If you have any questions concerning this page or the EEO process feel free to contact the EEO staff at: eeo@fec.gov.
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
In May each year, our country celebrates Asian/Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month. It began in June of 1977, when a resolution was introduced in the House of Representatives that called upon the President to proclaim the first ten days in May as Asian/Pacific heritage week.
The following month, a similar Bill was introduced in the Senate. In October of 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed a Joint Resolution designating the annual celebration and in May of 1990, President George H. W. Bush designated the whole month of May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. May was chosen to not only commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, but to also mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, which was built primarily by immigrants of Asian descent.
This year's theme is "Leadership, Diversity and Harmony -- Gateway to Success."
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Presidential Proclamation
