The Civil Rights Center’s Office of External Enforcement administers and enforces laws that apply to:
- Recipients of financial assistance under Title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA);
- One-Stop partners listed in WIOA Section 121(b) that offer programs or activities through the One-Stop/American Job Center workforce development system;
- For disability matters only, State and local governments and other public entities operating programs and activities related to labor and the workforce, regardless of whether they receive federal financial assistance; and
- Recipients of financial assistance from, or programs conducted by, the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) that are not included in the categories above.
A few examples include:
- WIOA programs for adults, youth, and dislocated workers
- State employment service programs
- The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) for older workers
- Trade Adjustment Assistance Program
- Federal employment and training programs for Native Americans and migrant and seasonal farm workers such as the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP)
- Unemployment Insurance programs
- Job Corps
- Other grant programs that are administered by DOL agencies
CRC's Office of External Enforcement processes, investigates, and makes decisions on complaints alleging discrimination on the basis of:
- Race;
- Color;
- Religion (including failure to accommodate);
- National origin (including Limited English Proficiency);
- Age;
- Sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity);
- Disability (including failure to provide accessible facilities, accommodations or modifications, or equally effective communications); or
- Political affiliation or belief.
Sometimes CRC’s Office of External Enforcement can also enforce the law prohibiting discrimination on the following basis:
- Citizenship/status as a lawfully admitted immigrant authorized to work in the United States (applicable to beneficiaries of WIOA-related programs or other programs or activities offered by a One-Stop partner through the One-Stop system);
- Participation in a program or activity that receives financial assistance under WIOA Title I;
- Status as a parent (in federally conducted education and training programs, such as Job Corps).
CRC’s External Enforcement also handles complaints alleging:
Retaliation against, or intimidation of, an individual who takes any of the following actions in covered programs or activities:
- Files a discrimination complaint;
- Opposes a practice that is illegal under civil rights law; or
- Gives information to, testifies at, or takes part in an investigation, a compliance review, a hearing, or any other type of civil rights related activity.