The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission may not bring claims of unlawful employment practices that allegedly took place 300 days before the initial charge that touched off the investigation, a federal judge has ruled in an issue of first impression.
Under the statute of limitations, the court ruled, the EEOC can’t include claims related to U.S. Steel’s practice of conducting random breath alcohol tests of its probationary employees that date back to the beginning of 2006 because it brought its initial action in 2008, U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer of the Western District of Pennsylvania said.
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