cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as: Probative Growth, Deadlines to file an employment-discrimination charge: the federal EEOC limit and each state agency's own limit, 2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23782861. Source: Probative, Deadlines to file an employment-discrimination charge: the federal EEOC limit and each state agency's own limit, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23782861, licensed CC BY 4.0."
type: dataset
title: "Deadlines to file an employment-discrimination charge: the federal EEOC limit and each state agency's own limit"
authors:
  - name: "Probative Growth"
    website: "https://probativegrowth.com"
version: "1.0.0"
date-released: 2026-10-29
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23782861
url: "https://probativegrowth.com/data/charge-deadlines/"
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "How long a worker has to file a charge of employment discrimination: the EEOC's 180-day limit and its 300-day extension, and the limit each covered state's own statute sets for its civil-rights agency. One row per rule, with the statute citation, the official document's URL and the verbatim quote (25 words or fewer) that carries the number."
keywords:
  - "EEOC charge deadline"
  - "employment discrimination filing deadline by state"
  - "state fair employment agency deadline"
  - "180 days 300 days EEOC"
  - "employment lawyer market data"