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Enter your name, complete address (including your county), and home telephone number on the Charge.
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In the area marked “Date(s) of Discrimination,” enter the most recent date that an adverse employment action (i.e., termination, suspension, etc.) occurred.
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IMPORTANT FACT - In Employment cases, the OCRC has jurisdiction over events that happened within the previous 6 months, and the EEOC has jurisdiction over events that happened within the previous 300 days.
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In the area marked “Company,” enter the name of your employment (i.e., ABC Corporation), its complete address (including county), its telephone number, the total number of people the business employs, and your date of hire (or denial of hire).
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Place an “X” next to the discrimination class (e.g., race, sex, etc.) that you believe occurred to you. In the next box, please show how you are within that class (e.g., if you checked the “race/color” box, you should input your race in the box next to it). Note: If you are filing on the basis of disability, do not identify your disability.
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Place an “X” next to the type of adverse employment action that occurred to you (e.g., if you were terminated, place an X in the “Discharge” box).
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Write a brief description of what happened.
In your description of the facts, be sure to include the following information:
- Identify the most recent position you held with the employer
- State the date of each discriminatory act
- State the name of the person(s) who made the discriminatory decision
- If reasons were given to you for the employment action, state each reason
- State all facts that show illegal discrimination was the real reason for the action. This can be comments, documents, statistics, people treated better than you, or any other facts.
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Please print off the charge and take it to a notary. Do not sign the charge until you are told to do so by the notary. After you and the notary have signed the charge, please mail the signed charge to your local OCRC office.
This is not an official charge until it has been received and processed by the OCRC office.
The charge MUST BE NOTARIZED before it can be processed.
Note: The information you are providing is not automatically saved. Please make sure you save this file if you want to make changes to the information you provided at a later time or if you are not finished.
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