---
kind: "section"
citation: "13 C.F.R. § 113.505"
title: "13"
number: "113.505"
heading: "Employment criteria."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/13/113.505"
---

# §113.505. Employment criteria.


A recipient shall not administer or operate any test or other criterion for any employment opportunity that has a disproportionately adverse effect on persons on the basis of sex unless:

- (a) Use of such test or other criterion is shown to predict validly successful performance in the position in question; and
- (b) Alternative tests or criteria for such purpose, which do not have such disproportionately adverse effect, are shown to be unavailable.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1681, 1682, 1683, 1685, 1686, 1687, 1688.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 52865, 52876, Aug. 30, 2000, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 633, 634, 687, 1691; 20 U.S.C. 1681, 1682, 1683, 1685, 1686, 1687, 1688; 29 U.S.C. 794; Sec. 5, Pub. L. 85-536, 72 Stat. 385, as amended; Sec. 308, Pub. L. 85-699, 72 Stat. 694, as amended.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 20068, Apr. 4, 1979, unless otherwise noted.