Employment Law

What does this mean: Your charge has been transferred to the Little Rock Area Office for processing. The statute of limitations bars relief for Equal Pay Act violations occurring more than two years prior to a lawsuit being filed by an aggrieved person or EEOC (or three years prior to a lawsuit being filed if the alleged violation is found to be willful). Under the Equal Pay Act, you have two years from the date of the alleged violation to file a lawsuit, or three years if the alleged violation is shown to be willful. Once a lawsuit is filed, the only pay which can be recovered is pay which was lost during the two years prior to the filing of the lawsuit (or during the three years prior to the filing of the lawsuit if the alleged violation is shown to be willful). If you filed a lawsuit today and prevailed in court, you could only recover back pay to June 29, 2015, or June 29, 2014, if the alleged violation is shown to be willful.