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Small Business and Title VII: Combining Subsidiary Units for Jurisdiction

Small Business and Title VII: Combining Subsidiary Units for Jurisdiction Small Business and Title VII: Combining Subsidiary Units for Jurisdiction MITCHELL S. NOVIT, Indiana University INTRODUCTION Much federal legislation which impacts upon business provides an exemption for the small company. This exemption may be specified in the law itself, it may be issued by the agency established to enforce the law, or it may be an exemption based on interstate commerce rulings from cases litigated in the courts. Title VII, the employment discrimination section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is an example of the first type. Written into the bill is a provision which says that employers with fewer than a specified number of employees are not covered by Title VII. This number was one hundred employees when the Act first went into effect in 1965, was reduced in steps to twenty-five by 1968, and in 1973 was further reduced to its present level of fifteen, as spelled out in 42 uses § 2000e(b), which says in part: (b) The term "employer" means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has fifteen or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year ... http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Small Business SAGE

Small Business and Title VII: Combining Subsidiary Units for Jurisdiction

Novit, Mitchell S.
American Journal of Small Business , Volume 8 (2): 5 – Oct 1, 1983
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© 1983 SAGE Publications
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0363-9428
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1540-6520
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10.1177/104225878300800206
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Small Business and Title VII: Combining Subsidiary Units for Jurisdiction MITCHELL S. NOVIT, Indiana University INTRODUCTION Much federal legislation which impacts upon business provides an exemption for the small company. This exemption may be specified in the law itself, it may be issued by the agency established to enforce the law, or it may be an exemption based on interstate commerce rulings from cases litigated in the courts. Title VII, the employment discrimination section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is an example of the first type. Written into the bill is a provision which says that employers with fewer than a specified number of employees are not covered by Title VII. This number was one hundred employees when the Act first went into effect in 1965, was reduced in steps to twenty-five by 1968, and in 1973 was further reduced to its present level of fifteen, as spelled out in 42 uses § 2000e(b), which says in part: (b) The term "employer" means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has fifteen or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year ...

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Published: Oct 1, 1983

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