[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1614.104]

[Page 258-259]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                           CHAPTER XIV--EQUAL
                         EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
                               COMMISSION
 
PART 1614--FEDERAL SECTOR EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart A--Agency Program To Promote Equal Employment Opportunity
 
Sec. 1614.104  Agency processing.

    (a) Each agency subject to this part shall adopt procedures for 
processing individual and class complaints of discrimination that 
include the provisions contained in Secs. 1614.105 through 1614.110 and 
in Sec. 1614.204, and that are consistent with all other applicable 
provisions of this part and the instructions for complaint processing 
contained in the Commission's Management Directives.
    (b) The Commission shall periodically review agency resources and 
procedures to ensure that an agency makes reasonable efforts to resolve 
complaints informally, to process complaints in a timely manner, to 
develop

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adequate factual records, to issue decisions that are consistent with 
acceptable legal standards, to explain the reasons for its decisions, 
and to give complainants adequate and timely notice of their rights.