5th Circuit:  Intake Questionnaire With State Doesn’t Constitute Timely EEOC Filing

Mealey's (July 8, 2019, 2:17 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — An employee’s intake questionnaire filed with a state agency indicating retaliation and bias that was later forwarded to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was an insufficient charge of discrimination as it did “not contain a clear and concise statement of facts alleging unlawful employment practices,” a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled on July 3, upholding dismissal of the employee’s claims of age, national origin and disability bias (Jose Carlos Caycho Melgar v. T.B. Butler Publishing Company, Incorporated, et al., No. 18-41080, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 19920)....