** Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Title VII is the principal federal statute with regard to employment discrimination prohibiting unlawful employment discrimination by public and private employers, labor organizations, training programs and employment agencies based on race or color, religion, gender, and national origin.

Title VII also prohibits retaliation against any person for opposing any practice forbidden by statute, or for making a charge, testifying, assisting, or participating in a proceeding under the statute.

The Civil Rights Act of 1991 expanded the damages available in Title VII cases and granted Title VII plaintiffs the right to a jury trial.

Title VII also provides that race and color discrimination against every race and color is prohibited.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act is the principal federal statute with regard to employment discrimination prohibiting unlawful employment discrimination by public and private employers, labour organizations, training programmes and employment agencies based on race or colour, religion, sex, and national origin.

Retaliation is also prohibited by Title VII against any person for opposing any practice forbidden by statute, or for making a charge, testifying, assisting, or participating in a proceeding under the statute.

The Civil Rights Act of 1991 expanded the damages available to Title VII cases and granted Title VII plaintiffs the right to jury trial.

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* Title VII — Miscellaneous provisions

#: Title VII consists of five sections and requires the Comptroller General and the SEC to perform various studies and report their findings.

:: Example: We have consistently applied that presumption to language in the ADEA that was " derived in haec verba from Title VII.

Because The Salvation Army is a church, Title VII of the U. S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 allows them to inquire into religious beliefs in its hiring practices.

In 1998, Chief Deputy U. S. Marshal ( now inactive ) Matthew Fogg won a landmark EEO and Title VII racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the Justice Department, for which he was awarded $ 4 million.

849, 28 L. Ed. 2d 158 ( 1971 ) and Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody, 422 U. S. 405 ( 1975 ), two of the Supreme Court's most significant Title VII employment discrimination decisions.

Thus, as Justice William Rehnquist explained in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, “ The prohibition against discrimination based on sex was added to Title VII at the last minute on the floor of the House of Representatives ... the bill quickly passed as amended, and we are left with little legislative history to guide us in interpreting the Act ’ s prohibition against discrimination based on ‘ sex .’”

Title VII of the Act, codified as Subchapter VI of Chapter 21 of title 42 of the United States Code, prohibits discrimination by covered employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin ( see ).

Title VII applies to and covers an employer " who has fifteen ( 15 ) or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year " as written in the Definitions section under 42 U. S. C.

Title VII also prohibits discrimination against an individual because of his or her association with another individual of a particular race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

US EPA Title 40 Section 503 allows for wheat to be grown on sewage sludge.

Title 32 allows the Governor, with the approval of the President or the Secretary of Defense, to order a member to duty for operational Homeland Defense activities IAW the United States Code, under federal funding.

While none of these officers would succeed to the presidency as would a Vice President, the provisions of the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, now codified in Title 3, Chapter 1, section 19 of the United States Code, create a line of succession that allows the Speaker of the House, the President pro tempore of the Senate, and Cabinet officers, to serve as acting president in the case of removal, resignation, death or inability of both the President and Vice President, and also in the case of failure to qualify of both a President-elect and a Vice President-elect.

Title 13, Chapter 5, of the California Penal Code Section 490. 5 ( f )( 1 ) allows an employee to detain a suspected shoplifter for a reasonable amount of time.

Chapter 13 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, codified under Title 11 of the United States Code, governs a form of bankruptcy in the United States that allows individuals to undergo a financial reorganization supervised by a federal bankruptcy court.

" Although these criteria do not formally apply to the military's Title 10 POW statute, the legal rule of pari materia allows the reference of the Title 38 guidelines for clarification purposes since both statutes were crafted to be complimentary.

Title I allows individuals to reduce the exclusion period by the amount of time that they had " creditable coverage " prior to enrolling in the plan and after any " significant breaks " in coverage.

The Details pane also allows for the change of some textual metadata such as ' Author ' and ' Title ' in files that support them within Windows Explorer.

In the United States, Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 allows hearing dogs, along with guide and service dogs, access to anywhere the general public is permitted.

As originally enacted, Title X of the Act provided that a qualifying employer will not be permitted to take a tax deduction for its health insurance costs unless its health insurance plan allows employees of the employer and the employee's immediate family members who had been covered by a health care plan to maintain their coverage if a " qualifying event " causes them to lose coverage.

Title 4 has only one article which allows a limited number of member states to co-operate within the EU if others are blocking integration in that field.

The federal government allows state and local governments to add additional safety requirements beyond those of Title 49 Part 571. 500.

In the US pilots can be trained under Title 14 of federal code part 141 which allows them to apply for their certificate in as little as 35 hours.

In " Reauthor " mode, the interface allows the user to choose specifically which DVD elements ( Main Title, audio tracks and subtitles, and Special Features ) to retain on the " shrunken " DVD ; Menus are not selectable.

The compression can be automatic or manual, which allows selection of greatest compression for Menus or Special Features, saving disc space for the Main Title.

The Library Mode view allows users to browse their video content by categories ; Genre, Title, Year, Actors and Directors.

Under Title II, no one can be denied access to public services due to his or her disability ; it allows those whose rights have been violated to sue states for money damages.

For example, in the United States, Title 47 CFR Part 15 ( or " part 15 "), is a regulation that allows unlicensed broadcasting within a range of just a few meters.

Salem is approved by the U. S. Department of Education to participate in the Title IV program, which also allows students to obtain the benefits of Pell grants and other federal funding programs.

The Court also authorizes jury trials on Title VII claims and allows Title VII plaintiffs to recover emotional distress and punitive damages, while imposing caps on such relief under Title VII.

In connection with any claim decided by the Commission pursuant to this Title in which an award is made, the Commission may, upon the written request of the claimant or any attorney heretofore or hereafter employed by such claimant, determine and apportion the just and reasonable attorney's fees for services rendered with respect to such claim, but the total amount of the fees so determined in any case shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to the award.

Any person who makes application for any such payment shall be held to have consented to all the provisions of this Title.

Nothing in the Title shall be construed as the assumption of any liability by the United States for the payment or satisfaction, in whole or in part, of any claim on behalf of any national of the United States against any foreign government.

All payments authorized under Section 7 of this Title shall be disbursed from the proper fund, as the case may be, and all amounts covered into the Treasury to the credit of the aforesaid funds are hereby permanently appropriated for the making of the payments authorized by Section 7 of this Title.

a special fund created for that purpose pursuant to subsection ( A ) of this section any amounts hereafter paid, in United States dollars, by a foreign government which has entered into a claims settlement agreement with the Government of the United States as described in subsection ( A ) of Section 4 of this Title.

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed out of the sums covered into any of the funds pursuant to subsection ( B ) of this section, and after making the deduction provided for in Section 7 ( B ) of this Title -- ( 1 )

The authority for the program was renewed several times until the vocational rehabilitation program was made permanent as Title 5, of the Social Security Act in 1935.

At that time consideration will be given to whether in the light of the United States supplies of rice available for Title 1, disposal, India's production, consumption and stocks of food grains, other imports from the United States and countries friendly to the United States, India's storage capacity, and other related factors, any increase would be possible in the portion of the total rice programmed which is currently planned for procurement during the first year.

The two Governments agree that the issuance of purchase authorizations for wheat and rice providing for purchase after June 30, 1961, shall be dependent upon the determination by the United States Government that these commodities are in surplus supply and available under Title 1, of the Act at that time.

The satirical element of the pamphlet is often only understood after the reader notes the allusions made by Swift to the attitudes of landlords, such as the following: " I grant this food may be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for Landlords, who as they have already devoured most of the Parents, seem to have the best Title to the Children.

With regard to historic properties ( those properties that are listed or that are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, or properties designated as historic under State or local law ), those facilities must still comply with the provisions of Title III of the ADA to the " maximum extent feasible " but if following the usual standards would " threaten to destroy the historic significance of a feature of the building " then alternative standards may be used.

Nonetheless, as Frank Bowe predicted when he testified as the lead witness on Title III in the Senate hearings leading up to enactment, the fact that Title III calls for accessibility in, and alterations to, thousands of stores, restaurants, hotels, etc., in thousands of communities across the U. S. means that this Title probably has had more effect on the lives of more Americans with disabilities than any other ADA title.

When Title IV took effect in the early 1990s, it led to installation of public Teletypewriter ( TTY ) machines and other TDDs ( Telecommunications Device for the Deaf ).

Title IV called for a total reduction of about 10 million tons of SO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions from power plants.

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These are a popular compromise for ( American ) shooters who would like to own a submachine gun but cannot due to local restrictions or the prohibitive cost of buying a civilian legal submachine gun ( full automatics or semi-automatics with barrels shorter than are restricted under Title II of the National Firearms Act ).

There has been debate on whether or not cheerleading can be considered a sport for Title IX purposes.

In contrast, on July 21, 2010, in a lawsuit involving whether college cheerleading qualified as a sport for purposes of Title IX, a federal court, citing a current lack of program development and organization, ruled that it does not, but may in the future.