About EEOCdeadline
An editorial information hub for the federal EEOC charge filing deadline and the 50-state Fair Employment Practices Agency dual-filing matrix. We are not the EEOC. We are not a law firm. We do not file charges on your behalf.
A decoder, a matrix, and nine pillars
A deadline decoder
Six inputs, one personalized output: an absolute filing-deadline date for the federal EEOC charge, the state filing window where applicable, the statute pin, and a calendar export. Runs entirely in your browser; your incident date is never sent to a server.
A 50-state matrix
For every state plus DC: the federal 180/300-day window, the FEPA agency name and statute, worksharing posture, state-level filing window, and the federal circuit. Sourced from 29 CFR §1601.74 plus each agency's primary site.
Pillar explainers
Nine in-depth pages on 180-vs-300, dual-filing, right-to-sue, EEOC investigation timeline, continuing-violation doctrine, federal-employee path, employer coverage thresholds, post-deadline fallbacks, and EPA's no-charge-required path.
Editorial process
Primary sources only
Every state row is sourced from 29 CFR §1601.74 and each FEPA agency's official statute. Federal statutes link to Cornell LII (law.cornell.edu) — the canonical free text of the U.S. Code. Supreme Court cases link to supreme.justia.com with the U.S. Reports citation. Public laws (e.g. Lilly Ledbetter 2009) link to congress.gov. We do not cite "as discussed in" sources for foundational rules.
Last verified dates on every page
The state matrix carries per-row verification timestamps. We re-audit on a quarterly cycle and on triggering events: statutory amendments at the state or federal level, agency restructures or renames, federal-circuit decisions that change continuing-violation doctrine, Supreme Court grants of certiorari on EEOC procedural questions, and material EEOC guidance updates.
Attorney review
Every state page and the decoder are reviewed by a licensed employment-law attorney whose bar number, state of admission, and signoff date are listed in the reviewer block. Until that block is live (Gate 7), every page renders a visible "pending attorney review" notice rather than implying counsel has signed off.
No fabricated content
When a fact is verified, we cite the primary source. When a fact is uncertain or under reviewer-pending status, we mark it as such — we do not paper over gaps with plausible-sounding prose. The decoder produces an indeterminate output state for genuinely ambiguous inputs (multi-act + hostile-environment hybrids; federal-contractor + state-FEPA + OFCCP simultaneous; ambiguous §1981 race-coding) rather than fabricate a date.
Privacy by design
The decoder runs entirely client-side. We never log the date of the incident you enter. Analytics record categorical inputs only — state abbreviation, statute route, employer-type bucket, employer-size bucket, determination class — and we never echo decoder inputs in URL query strings. GA4 is configured with anonymized IP and Consent Mode v2 default-grant-analytics / default-deny-ads.
What we explicitly do not do
- We do not file charges on your behalf.
- We do not provide legal advice or establish an attorney-client relationship.
- We do not sell personal information.
- We do not run lead-capture interstitials, countdown timers, or "act now" urgency manipulation.
- We do not gate primary statutory text or filing-channel URLs behind an affiliate redirect — links to law.cornell.edu / ecfr.gov / publicportal.eeoc.gov are always direct.
Editorial reviewer
The reviewer block below shows current status. Real bar number, state of admission, and signoff date appear here once Gate 7 closes.
.ops/credentials/reviewer-attribution.md and rendered here when Gate 7 closes.Operating entity + affiliate posture
EEOCdeadline is operated by [US LLC], an editorial information company. We are not the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and we have no affiliation with the federal government, any state agency, or any law firm.
Lawyer-match referrals shown on the site are operated through partner attorney networks. When we receive a referral fee, the affiliate-disclosure statement is rendered inline above the CTA: "We are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice." We never gate primary statutory text or filing-channel URLs behind an affiliate redirect, and we never present affiliate funnels in the decoder output for a viable pre-deadline charge — only when the decoder hits the indeterminate or deadline-past states where attorney counsel is genuinely the next step.
Why this matters for trust
Many sites in the employment-law space monetize through aggressive lead-capture: countdown timers, modal interstitials, urgency copy ("Don't let them get away with this!"). We don't. Our audience is people who experienced workplace discrimination and may still be employed at the alleged discriminator — the audience-sensitivity register is calm and corrective, not crisis-amplifying. The brand decision sits in a public spec at .ops/inbox/internal-design/brand-identity.md §5 (voice rules) and §10 (anti-pattern list).
Things you can verify
Every statute pin links to law.cornell.edu
Click any 42 U.S.C., 29 CFR, or 29 U.S.C. citation. The link target is always the Cornell Legal Information Institute. We do not cite third-party aggregators for primary law.
Every state row has a last-verified date
Open any /states/[abbr] page. The footer carries the per-state verification date — the most recent audit pass against the primary source.
The decoder shows its work
After submit, the output card lists the statute pin, CFR pin, state pin, federal circuit, and the post-deadline-fallbacks block. Every claim has a citation.
Reviewer attribution is honest
Until a licensed employment-law attorney's signoff is filed, every reviewer block renders a visible 'Pending attorney review' notice in slate. We do not fabricate attorney signoffs.