REMEDIES: WHAT IS A “NO CONTACT” ORDER?
It is a remedy no one should forget to request. Josefina at the VA did not. She filed a complaint alleging her manager had subjected her to a hostile work environment on the basis of reprisal for prior protected EEO activity as evidenced by several incidents. The EEOC agreed and issued an unusual order called a “No Contact” order. It required the agency to “… take all necessary steps to ensure that, following her reinstatement, Complainant has no contact with the Supervisory Medical Instruments Technician (hereinafter Former Supervisor.” When a dispute arose as to whether the agency was complying, the Commission wrote— Continue reading