Narrow bona fide occupational qualification

EXCEPTION · 29usc623:bfoq

Section 623(f)(1) statutory defense; employer must justify age qualification, not rely on stereotypes or ordinary preference. Detailed safety/BFOQ evidentiary variants are outside this core catalogue.

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where age is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular business
Source: docroot/ir/usc/title29.jsonl#title29_sec623; Unicode character offsets [3295:3418] (end exclusive); SHA-256 d7414b39849853d6a6068539da731f835b09d9f238c028f95f2d0dd04fb6f667.

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