Takeaway: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 generally requires an employee to file a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) within 300 days in deferral states of the acts of discrimination before filing a lawsuit. If an EEOC charge does not describe all the employee's claims, a court cannot consider omitted claims in a later lawsuit.
A plaintiff's harassment and discrimination claims were time-barred, and the plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies for his retaliation and constructive discharge claims, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled.
The plaintiff worked as a security officer at the Center for Behavioral Medicine (CBM) for about 21 years before he resigned in December 2019. On Aug. 9, 2018, the plaintiff filed a grievance with CBM's HR department about his supervisor's alleged harassment. HR had an investigator look into the plaintiff's grievance and found his complaints unsubstantiated.
On July 24, 2019, the plaintiff filed charges with the Missouri Commission on Human Rights (MCHR) and the EEOC. The description attached to the charge listed specific incidents of harassment only until Aug. 10, 2018. Although the charge indicated that the discrimination was continuing, and listed Oct. 16, 2018, as the latest date of discrimination, the description stated that HR found the plaintiff's internal grievance filed on that date to be unsubstantiated.
After the plaintiff resigned, he filed a...
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