---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 15a.505"
title: "7"
number: "15a.505"
heading: "Employment criteria."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/15a.505"
---

# §15a.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; 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.; and 50 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.

### Source

Source: 82 FR 46656, Oct. 6, 2017, unless otherwise noted.