Deadlines to file an employment-discrimination charge: the federal EEOC limit and each state agency's own limit

Version 1.0.0. CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23782861

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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.

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Probative. (2026). Deadlines to file an employment-discrimination charge: the federal EEOC limit and each state agency's own limit (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23782861

Not legal advice. These are the time limits as the statutes and the EEOC state them, kept for research and marketing planning. Deadlines have exceptions and change; a worker should ask a lawyer or the agency about a particular case.
Probative is a marketing firm, not a law firm; not legal advice.

Human page: https://probativegrowth.com/data/charge-deadlines/

Columns:
  id: Stable record id (never reused)
  jurisdiction: Two-letter state code, or US for the federal rule
  level: 
  stateName: 
  agency: The agency that takes the charge
  measure: federal-charge-deadline, federal-charge-deadline-extended or state-charge-deadline
  period: current law
  status: P primary source, S secondary source
  text: The record in one plain-English sentence
  value: The number of the limit
  unit: days, calendar days, months or years
  quote: The verbatim words (25 or fewer) that carry the limit
  document: The statute or page
  documentUrl: Where it is
  verified: The date the quote was last found in the document
  lastChecked: The day it was last confirmed (YYYY-MM-DD)
  sourceLabels: Sources, separated by " | "
  sourceUrls: Source URLs, in the same order
  confidence: high, medium or low: computed from status, a second check, age against the refresh cadence and sampling error (rule: /data/#confidence)
  confidenceBasis: The reasons for the confidence level, in a short phrase