Florida Equal Opportunity is the Law Notice Mandatory

E	QUAL 	O	PPORTUNITY 	IS THE 	L	AW	 	
 
It is against the law for this recipient of Federal financial assistance to discriminate on the following bases: 
against any individual in the United States, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, 
childbirth, and related medical conditions, sex stereotyping, transgender status, and gender identity), national 
origin (including limited English proficiency), age, disability, or political affiliation or belief, or, against any 
beneficiary of, applicant to, or participant in programs financially assisted under Title I of the Workforce 
Innovation and Opportunity Act, on the basis of the individual’s citizenship status or participation in any WIOA 
Title I–financially assisted program or activity.  
 
The recip ient must not discriminate in any of the following areas:  deciding who will be admitted, or have 
access, to any WIOA Title I –financially assisted program or activity; providing opportunities in, or treating any 
person with regard to, such a program or act ivity; or making employment decisions in the administration of, or 
in connection with, such a program or activity. 
 
Recipients of federal financial assistance must take reasonable steps to ensure that communications with 
individuals with disabilities are a s effective as communications with others. This means that, upon request and 
at no cost to the individual, recipients are required to provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services to qualified 
individuals with disabilities.  
 	
W	HAT TO 	DO 	IF Y	OU 	BELIEVE 	Y	OU  	H	AVE 	EXPERIENCED 	D	ISCRIMINATION	 	
 
If you think that you have been subjected to discrimination under a WIOA Title I–financially assisted program 
or activity, you may file a complaint within 180 days from the date of the alleged violation with either:  the 
recipient’s Equal Opportunity Officer (or the person whom the recipient has designated for this purpose);  
 
 
 
 
or  
 
Director, Civil Rights Center (CRC), U.S. Department of Labor 
200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room N-4123, Washington, DC 20210  
or electronicall y as directed on the CRC website at www.dol.gov/crc. 
 
If you file your complaint with the recipient, you must wait either until the recipient issues a written Notice of 
Final Action, or until 90 days have passed (whichever is sooner), before filing with the Civil Rights Center (see 
address above).  If the recipient does not give you a written Notice of Final Action within 90 days of the day on 
which you filed your complaint, you may file a complaint with CRC before receiving that Notice. However, you 
must f ile your CRC complaint within 30 days of the 90-day deadline (in other words, within 120 days after the 
day on which you filed your complaint with the recipient).  If the recipient does give you a written Notice of 
Final Action on your complaint, but you are dissatisfied with the decision or resolution, you may file a 
complaint with CRC. You must file your CRC complaint within 30 days of the date on which you received the 
Notice of Final Action.