4.0 | CHAPTER 4 INTRO

All hearing requests upon submission and docketing are eligible for ADR except for complaints filed against the following Agencies:

1. Decennial Census Agency.

2. Central Intelligence Agency.

3. National Reconnaissance Office.

4. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

5. National Security Agency.

You can view the invitation to participate in ADR and respond to it via the EEOC Public Portal. When you login, select My Cases and then the hearing number in the list of cases; the invitation displays on the My Case page below the My Case section as shown in Figure 1 below (the full text of the invitation to ADR can be found in Appendix A).

You will have 30 days to respond to the invitation. If you do not respond within 30 days, you will receive a weekly email reminder and if you do not respond after the reminder, EEOC may decide to move your case forward without mediation by assigning it to an Administrative Judge or Pending AJ assignment if your case is yet to be assigned to an Administrative Judge.