TEGL 06-24
Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 06-24
Complying with Nondiscrimination Requirements: Preventing and Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the Workforce Development System; Reducing Barriers Faced by Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in Seeking Jobs and Participating in Covered Programs and Activities
To inform the public workforce system and other entities that receive federal financial assistance under Title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), as well as education and training programs and activities receiving Department of Labor (DOL) financial assistance on how to: (1) prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV), which can be a form of sex discrimination prohibited by nondiscrimination and equal opportunity laws applicable to the workforce development system, and (2) reduce barriers that GBV survivors face in seeking jobs and participating in covered programs and activities.
AMERICAN JOB CENTERS
STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES
STATE WORKFORCE ADMINISTRATORS
STATE WORKFORCE LIAISONS
STATE AND LOCAL WORKFORCE BOARD CHAIRS AND DIRECTORS
STATE AND LOCAL EQUAL OPPORTUNITY OFFICERS
STATE LABOR COMMISSIONERS
WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY ACT SECTION 166 INDIAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN GRANTEES
WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY ACT SECTION 167 MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKER JOBS PROGRAM GRANTEES
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM GRANTEES
JOB CORPS CONTRACTORS AND CENTER OPERATORS
RECIPIENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
SUB-RECIPIENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
JOSÉ JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ
Assistant Secretary
Employment and Training Administration
NAOMI BARRY-PÉREZ
Director
Civil Rights Center
Inquiries about equal opportunity issues in the public workforce system should be addressed to CRC, by phone at 202-693-6502 (voice) or by e-mail at CivilRightsCenter@dol.gov. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech-related impairment may dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services.
Complaints alleging discrimination in covered programs and activities may be filed with CRC by postal mail, e-mail, or fax, addressed to Director, Civil Rights Center, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room N4123, Washington, DC 20210, CRCExternalComplaints@dol.gov, 202-693-6505 (fax). Further information about the discrimination complaint process is available on CRC’s website at http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/crc/external-enforc-complaints.htm.