3rd Circuit: EEOC Email, Portal Upload Didn’t Start 90-Day Filing Period

(August 6, 2024, 10:20 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — An email from an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigator to an employee’s attorney regarding a forthcoming right-to-sue letter as well as the posting of the letter on the EEOC’s online portal did not start the 90-day clock for filing a complaint, a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held, vacating a trial court’s summary judgment ruling for the employer on the subsequent harassment and retaliation complaint....