O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-19-31 (2019)

Unlawful practices in advertisement of employment

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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It is an unlawful practice for an employer to print or publish or cause to be printed or published a notice or advertisement relating to employment by such an employer indicating any preference, limitation, specification, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, or age, except that such a notice or advertisement may indicate a preference, limitation, or specification based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, or age when religion, national origin, sex, disability, or age is a bona fide occupational qualification for employment.

History

(Ga. L. 1978, p. 859, § 5; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1097, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1302, § 10.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 15 Am. Jur. 2d, Civil Rights, § 342 et seq. 45A Am. Jur. 2d, Job Discrimination, §§ 481 et seq., 492 et seq. C.J.S. - 14A C.J.S., Civil Rights, §§ 248, 249, 517, 574. ALR. - Recovery of damages for emotional distress resulting from discrimination because of sex or marital status, 61 ALR3d 944. Application of state law to sex discrimination in employment, 87 ALR3d 93. Identification of jobseeker by race, reli-

gion, national origin, sex, or age, in ‘‘Situation Wanted’’ employment advertising as violation of state civil rights laws, 99 ALR3d 154. Judicial construction and application of state legislation prohibiting religious discrimination in employment, 37 ALR5th 349. What constitutes racial harassment in employment violative of state civil rights acts, 17 ALR6th 563.