Fourth Circuit Says EEOC Questionnaire, Worker’s Letters Not Part of Bias Charge

A federal district court in Virginia properly declined to consider as part of a formal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charge the sex bias allegations contained in a fired female employee’s EEOC intake questionnaire and an attached letter, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held March 15 (Balas v. Huntington Ingalls Indus. Inc., 4th Cir., 12-1201, 3/15/13).

Affirming judgment on the pleadings to Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., the Fourth Circuit found that the lower court lacked jurisdiction to consider Karen Balas’s failure-to-promote claim under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act because it was ...