Equal Opportunity Data Required to Be Posted by the No Fear Act
No Fear Act Notice
On May 15, 2002, Congress enacted the "Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002," which is now known as the No FEAR Act. One purpose of the Act is to "require that Federal agencies be accountable for violations of antidiscrimination and whistleblower protection laws." [See Public Law 107-174, Summary.] In support of this purpose, Congress found that "agencies cannot be run effectively if those agencies practice or tolerate discrimination." [See Public Law 107-174, Title I, General Provisions, section 101(1).] The Act also requires this agency to provide this notice to Federal employees, former Federal employees and applicants for Federal employment to inform you of the rights and protections available to you under Federal antidiscrimination and whistleblower protection laws.
For rights and protections available to you under the Federal antidiscrimination and whistleblower laws, as well as information regarding retaliation and disciplinary actions, go to http://www.doi.gov/pmb/eeo/rights.cfm
No Fear Quarterly and Five Year Reports (Complaint Activity Data)
DEPARTMENT-WIDE
BUREAUS
- Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
- Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
- Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)
- Bureau of Reclamation (BOR)
- National Park Service (NPS)
- Office of the Secretary (OS)
- Office of Surface Mining (OSM)
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
The intent of the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002, "No FEAR Act" is that federal agencies will pay more attention to their EEO and whistleblower complaint activity and act more expeditiously to resolve complaints at the administrative level when it is appropriate to do so. Each agency is required to post on its primary web homepage a link to the data required to be posted under the Act and designate the link and that data as "Equal Opportunity Data to be posted by the No FEAR Act."