Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity
Office of Human Resources
The Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity (OCREO), under its Associate Commissioner, in the Office of Human Resources (OHR), provides national direction on a wide range of SSA’s equal opportunity (EO) and diversity activities. This includes: a) planning, implementing and directing programs designed to ensure equality of employment opportunity for all regardless of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, disability status or sexual orientation; b) managing the system for processing, adjudicating, and resolving complaints of discrimination in compliance with all applicable laws, 29 C.F.R. Part 1614, and other guidance issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); c) developing and directing a program of reasonable accommodation for SSA’s employees with disabilities; d) developing and maintaining all necessary information systems to manage SSA’s EO programs, develop reliable statistical analyses and track EO workloads. For further information regarding Equal Employment Opportunity at the Social Security Administration, please contact OCREO at (410) 965-3318.
