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[CITE: 42USC2000e-3]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 21--CIVIL RIGHTS
 
              SUBCHAPTER VI--EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
 
Sec. 2000e-3. Other unlawful employment practices


(a) Discrimination for making charges, testifying, assisting, or 
        participating in enforcement proceedings

    It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to 
discriminate against any of his employees or applicants for employment, 
for an employment agency, or joint labor-management committee 
controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining, including 
on-the-job training programs, to discriminate against any individual, or 
for a labor organization to discriminate against any member thereof or 
applicant for membership, because he has opposed any practice made an 
unlawful employment practice by this subchapter, or because he has made 
a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an 
investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this subchapter.

(b) Printing or publication of notices or advertisements indicating 
        prohibited preference, limitation, specification, or 
        discrimination; occupational qualification exception

    It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer, labor 
organization, employment agency, or joint labor-management committee 
controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining, including 
on-the-job training programs, to print or publish or cause to be printed 
or published any notice or advertisement relating to employment by such 
an employer or membership in or any classification or referral for 
employment by such a labor organization, or relating to any 
classification or referral for employment by such an employment agency, 
or relating to admission to, or employment in, any program established 
to provide apprenticeship or other training by such a joint labor-
management committee, indicating any preference, limitation, 
specification, or discrimination, based on race, color, religion, sex, 
or national origin, except that such a notice or advertisement may 
indicate a preference, limitation, specification, or discrimination 
based on religion, sex, or national origin when religion, sex, or 
national origin is a bona fide occupational qualification for 
employment.

(Pub. L. 88-352, title VII, Sec. 704, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 257; Pub. 
L. 92-261, Sec. 8(c), Mar. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 109.)


                               Amendments

    1972--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 92-261, Sec. 8(c)(1), inserted provision 
making it an unlawful employment practice for a joint labor-management 
committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining, 
including on-the-job training programs, to discriminate against the 
specified individuals.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 92-261, Sec. 8(c)(2), inserted provisions 
making prohibitions applicable to joint labor-management committees 
controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining, including 
on-the-job training programs, and notices or advertisements of such 
joint labor-management committees relating to admission to, or 
employment in, any program established to provide apprenticeship or 
other training.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1981a, 2000e-1, 2000e-5 of 
this title.
