Opinion ID: 554071
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Worksharing Agreement

Text: 7 As it has done with a majority of the state and local agencies that combat discrimination, the EEOC has entered into a worksharing agreement with IDHR. See Commercial Office Prods., 486 U.S. at 112, 108 S.Ct. at 1669. The agreement is intended to minimize duplication of effort in the handling of deferred charges ... and to achieve maximum consistency of purpose and results. Appellees' App. at 1 (Work Sharing Agreement). The worksharing agreement between the IDHR and the EEOC provides that the IDHR hereby waives its exclusive [sixty day] right to process those charges [initially processed by the EEOC], ... so that the EEOC can take immediate action on such charges. Id. at 5. The agreement also establishes procedures for referral of charges filed with one agency that also meet the jurisdictional requisites of the other agency. 8 The agreement specifically provides that all charges received by the EEOC shall be initially processed by the IDHR by an EEOC employee in the Chicago District Office designated by the IDHR as its agent. Charges determined by the agent to fall within the waiver provision of the agreement must be forwarded to the IDHR for further review. Unless IDHR notifies the EEOC in writing that it has revoked its decision to terminate activity on the charge, the determination of the IDHR's agent that such activity is terminated is final. Id. at 1-3. 9 The charge in this case was filed with the EEOC 299 days after the allegedly discriminatory acts; the filing cannot be timely unless, before the 300th day, IDHR proceedings were both initiated and terminated.