---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1674"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1674"
heading: "Restriction on discharge from employment by reason of garnishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1674"
units:
  - "Chapter 41 — Consumer Credit Protection"
  - "Subchapter II — Restrictions on Garnishment"
---

# §1674. Restriction on discharge from employment by reason of garnishment

- (a) **Termination of employment—** No employer may discharge any employee by reason of the fact that his [earnings](/usc/15/1672.md?p=a) have been subjected to [garnishment](/usc/15/1672.md?p=c) for any one indebtedness.
- (b) **Penalties—** Whoever willfully violates [subsection (a)](#a) of this section shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–321, title III, § 304, May 29, 1968, 82 Stat. 163.)