EEOC's new login.gov requirement is making it harder for the Human Relations Commission to help residents file federal job-discrimination complaints

What happened

Director Anne-Therese Ryan said she ran into the login.gov requirement this month while helping a resident who wanted to file a job-discrimination complaint, and ended up filing it with the Indiana Civil Rights Commission instead. She said the federal login.gov system — the same multi-factor login used for things like TSA PreCheck — is too extensive a process for her office to walk people through, and that Indiana's civil rights commission still forwards its Indiana cases to the EEOC anyway under an existing agreement.

The outcome

No action taken — the office will keep directing complainants to the Indiana Civil Rights Commission instead of EEOC.

Sources

• Filed through Indiana Civil Rights Commission instead of EEOC, 28:19
• EEOC's new login.gov account requirement, 28:35
• Too extensive a process for the office's capacity, 28:56
• Indiana Civil Rights Commission forwards cases to EEOC, 29:29

Also known as: EEOC login.gov requirement · Indiana Civil Rights Commission complaint filing · employment discrimination complaints Terre Haute · federal job discrimination complaint barrier