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Title 45. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES · Chapter 19. LABOR PRACTICES · Article 2. FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES

45-19-21. Purposes and construction of article.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    The general purposes of this article are:#

    1. (1)

      To provide for execution within public employment in the state of the policies embodied in Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 241), as amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 (86 Stat. 103), as from time to time amended, the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (81 Stat. 602), as from time to time amended, and the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (87 Stat. 355), as from time to time amended;#

    2. (2)

      To safeguard all individuals in public employment from discrimination in employment; and#

    3. (3)

      To promote the elimination of discrimination against all individuals in public employment because of such individuals’ race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, or age thereby to promote the protection of their interest in personal dignity and freedom from humiliation; to make available to the state their full productive capacities; to secure the state against domestic strife and unrest which would menace its democratic institutions; to preserve the public safety, health, and general welfare; and to further the interests, rights, and privileges of individuals within the state.#

  2. (b)

    This article shall be broadly construed to further the general purposes stated in this Code section and the special purposes of the particular provision involved.#

  3. (c)

    Nothing in this article shall be construed as indicating an intent to exclude local or federal laws on the same subject matter, which laws are not inconsistent with this article.#

  4. (d)

    Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to repeal any other nonconflicting law of this state relating to discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, or age.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1978, p. 859, § 2; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1097, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 45; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1302, § 10.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Gender and Justice in the Courts: A Report to the Supreme Court of Georgia by the Commission on Gender Bias in the Judicial System,’’ see 8 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 539 (1992).

Other notes

U.S. Code.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, referred to in this Code section, is codified as 42 U.S.C. § 2000a et seq. The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, referred to in this Code section, is codified as 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, referred to in this Code section, is codified as 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, referred to in this Code section, is codified as 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t45-(v33)-2016-pdf.pdf, Volume V33, 2016 edition, pages 557 to 558; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 7dfce9a0fd88.