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an employer who employed an average of at least 50 full-time employees on business days during the preceding calendar year	[ "law" ]	50	Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act	aca	ACA	offer to its full-time employees (and their dependents) the opportunity to enroll in minimum essential coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored plan	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section4980H&num=0&edition=prelim	The term "applicable large employer" means, with respect to a calendar year, an employer who employed an average of at least 50 full-time employees on business days during the preceding calendar year.	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/aca/	[ "counting_note", "employee_threshold", "full_name", "requirement" ]	null	null	null	null	null	null
any worker who qualifies as an employee is counted, including part-time employees, seasonal employees, and temporary employees	[ "law" ]	15	Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990	ada	ADA	No covered entity shall discriminate against a qualified individual on the basis of disability in regard to job application procedures, the hiring, advancement, or discharge of employees, employee compensation, job training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section12111&num=0&edition=prelim	The term "employer" means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has 15 or more employees for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and any agent of such person	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/ada/	[ "counting_note", "employee_threshold", "full_name", "requirement" ]	null	null	null	null	null	null
any worker who qualifies as an employee is counted, including part-time employees, seasonal employees, and temporary employees	[ "law" ]	20	Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967	adea	ADEA	to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's age	https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/coverage-businessprivate-employers	If a complaint involves age discrimination, the business is covered by the laws we enforce if it has 20 or more employees who worked for the company for at least twenty calendar weeks (in this year or last).	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/adea/	[ "counting_note", "employee_threshold", "full_name", "requirement" ]	null	null	null	null	null	null
normally employed fewer than 20 employees on a typical business day during the preceding calendar year	[ "law" ]	20	null	cobra	COBRA	The plan sponsor of each group health plan shall provide, in accordance with this part, that each qualified beneficiary who would lose coverage under the plan as a result of a qualifying event is entitled, under the plan, to elect, within the election period, continuation coverage under the plan.	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section1161&num=0&edition=prelim	Subsection (a) shall not apply to any group health plan for any calendar year if all employers maintaining such plan normally employed fewer than 20 employees on a typical business day during the preceding calendar year.	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/cobra/	[ "counting_note", "employee_threshold", "requirement" ]	null	null	null	null	null	null
the maximum part of the aggregate disposable earnings of an individual for any workweek which is subjected to garnishment may not exceed (1) 25 per centum of his disposable earnings for that week	[ "law", "size_rule" ]	null	Consumer Credit Protection Act	consumer-credit-protection-act	Consumer Credit Protection Act	No employer may discharge any employee by reason of the fact that his earnings have been subjected to garnishment for any one indebtedness	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section1674&num=0&edition=prelim	No employer may discharge any employee by reason of the fact that his earnings have been subjected to garnishment for any one indebtedness.	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/consumer-credit-protection-act/	[ "counting_note", "full_name", "requirement" ]	no employee-count threshold	null	null	null	null	null
null	[ "law" ]	100	EEO-1 Component 1 report	eeo-1	EEO-1	submit workforce demographic data, including data by job category and sex and race or ethnicity, to the EEOC	https://www.eeoc.gov/data/eeo-data-collections	The EEO-1 Component 1 report is a mandatory annual data collection that requires all private sector employers with 100 or more employees, and federal contractors with 50 or more employees meeting certain criteria, to submit workforce demographic data, including data by job category and sex and race or ethnicity, to the...	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/eeo-1/	[ "alternative_threshold", "alternative_threshold_applies_to", "employee_threshold", "full_name", "requirement" ]	null	50	federal contractors with 50 or more employees meeting certain criteria	null	null	null
null	[ "law", "size_rule" ]	null	Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity)	eo-11246-affirmative-action-program-revoked	EO 11246 affirmative action program (revoked)	null	https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/31/2025-02097/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity	Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked. For 90 days from the date of this order, Federal contractors may continue to comply with the regulatory scheme in effect on January 20, 2025.	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/eo-11246-affirmative-action-program-revoked/	[ "full_name", "revocation" ]	threshold revoked	null	null	Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked. For 90 days from the date of this order, Federal contractors may continue to comply with the regulatory scheme in effect on January 20, 2025.	null	null
null	[ "law", "size_rule" ]	null	Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988	eppa	EPPA	it shall be unlawful for any employer engaged in or affecting commerce or in the production of goods for commerce- (1) directly or indirectly, to require, request, suggest, or cause any employee or prospective employee to take or submit to any lie detector test	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section2001&num=0&edition=prelim	The term "employer" includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee or prospective employee.	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/eppa/	[ "coverage_trigger", "full_name", "requirement" ]	no employee-count threshold	null	null	null	any employer engaged in or affecting commerce or in the production of goods for commerce	null
null	[ "law", "size_rule" ]	null	Equal Pay Act of 1963	equal-pay-act	Equal Pay Act	No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the oppos...	https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/coverage-businessprivate-employers	Virtually all employers are covered by the Equal Pay Act (EPA), which makes it illegal to pay different wages to men and women if they perform substantially equal work in the same workplace.	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/equal-pay-act/	[ "full_name", "requirement" ]	no employee-count threshold	null	null	null	null	null
null	[ "law", "size_rule" ]	null	Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974	erisa	ERISA	The administrator of each employee benefit plan shall cause to be furnished in accordance with section 1024(b) of this title to each participant covered under the plan and to each beneficiary who is receiving benefits under the plan- (1) a summary plan description described in section 1022(a)(1)	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section1003&num=0&edition=prelim	Except as provided in subsection (b) or (c) and in sections 1051, 1081, and 1101 of this title, this subchapter shall apply to any employee benefit plan if it is established or maintained- (1) by any employer engaged in commerce or in any industry or activity affecting commerce; or	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/erisa/	[ "coverage_trigger", "full_name", "requirement" ]	no employee-count threshold	null	null	null	any employer engaged in commerce or in any industry or activity affecting commerce	null
null	[ "law", "size_rule" ]	null	Fair Credit Reporting Act	fcra	FCRA	a clear and conspicuous disclosure has been made in writing to the consumer at any time before the report is procured or caused to be procured, in a document that consists solely of the disclosure, that a consumer report may be obtained for employment purposes	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section1681b&num=0&edition=prelim	Except as provided in subparagraph (B), a person may not procure a consumer report, or cause a consumer report to be procured, for employment purposes with respect to any consumer, unless-	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/fcra/	[ "full_name", "requirement" ]	no employee-count threshold	null	null	null	null	null
Any establishment that has as its only regular employees the owner thereof or the parent, spouse, child, or other member of the immediate family of such owner shall not be considered to be an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce	[ "law", "size_rule" ]	null	Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938	flsa	FLSA	no employer shall employ any of his employees who in any workweek is engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or is employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, for a workweek longer than forty hours unless such employee receives compensation for his e...	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section203&num=0&edition=prelim	(d) "Employer" includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee and includes a public agency, but does not include any labor organization (other than when acting as an employer) or anyone acting in the capacity of officer or agent of such labor organization.	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/flsa/	[ "counting_note", "coverage_trigger", "full_name", "requirement" ]	no employee-count threshold	null	null	null	engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or is employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce	null
any employee of an employer who is employed at a worksite at which such employer employs less than 50 employees if the total number of employees employed by that employer within 75 miles of that worksite is less than 50	[ "law" ]	50	Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993	fmla	FMLA	an eligible employee shall be entitled to a total of 12 workweeks of leave during any 12-month period	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section2611&num=0&edition=prelim	The term "employer"- (i) means any person engaged in commerce or in any industry or activity affecting commerce who employs 50 or more employees for each working day during each of 20 or more calendar workweeks in the current or preceding calendar year;	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/fmla/	[ "counting_note", "employee_threshold", "full_name", "requirement" ]	null	null	null	null	null	null
any worker who qualifies as an employee is counted, including part-time employees, seasonal employees, and temporary employees	[ "law" ]	15	Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008	gina	GINA	to fail or refuse to hire, or to discharge, any employee, or otherwise to discriminate against any employee with respect to the compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment of the employee, because of genetic information with respect to the employee	https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/coverage-businessprivate-employers	If a complaint against a business (or some other private employer) involves race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability or genetic information, the business is covered by the laws we enforce if it has 15 or more employees who worked for the employer for at least twenty calendar weeks (...	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/gina/	[ "counting_note", "employee_threshold", "full_name", "requirement" ]	null	null	null	null	null	null
null	[ "law" ]	4	Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986	irca	IRCA	prohibited from discriminating on the basis of citizenship status; discriminating in the employment eligibility verification process; and retaliating under IRCA	https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/coverage	Employers with 4 or more employees (and recruiters and referrers for a fee) are also prohibited from discriminating on the basis of citizenship status; discriminating in the employment eligibility verification process; and retaliating under IRCA.	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/irca/	[ "employee_threshold", "full_name", "requirement" ]	null	null	null	null	null	null
Any individual who is reinstated to a position of employment in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be considered as having been on furlough or leave of absence during his period of jury service, shall be reinstated to his position of employment without loss of seniority	[ "law", "size_rule" ]	null	Jury System Improvements Act of 1978	jury-system-improvements-act	Jury System Improvements Act	No employer shall discharge, threaten to discharge, intimidate, or coerce any permanent employee by reason of such employee's jury service, or the attendance or scheduled attendance in connection with such service, in any court of the United States	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1875&num=0&edition=prelim	(a) No employer shall discharge, threaten to discharge, intimidate, or coerce any permanent employee by reason of such employee's jury service, or the attendance or scheduled attendance in connection with such service, in any court of the United States.	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/jury-system-improvements-act/	[ "counting_note", "full_name", "requirement" ]	no employee-count threshold	null	null	null	null	null
null	[ "law", "size_rule" ]	null	Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970	osh-act	OSH Act	shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section652&num=0&edition=prelim	(5) The term "employer" means a person engaged in a business affecting commerce who has employees, but does not include the United States (not including the United States Postal Service) or any State or political subdivision of a State.	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/osh-act/	[ "coverage_trigger", "full_name", "requirement" ]	no employee-count threshold	null	null	null	a person engaged in a business affecting commerce who has employees	null
any worker who qualifies as an employee is counted, including part-time employees, seasonal employees, and temporary employees	[ "law" ]	15	Pregnancy Discrimination Act	pda	PDA	women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes, including receipt of benefits under fringe benefit programs, as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work	https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/coverage-businessprivate-employers	If a complaint against a business (or some other private employer) involves race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability or genetic information, the business is covered by the laws we enforce if it has 15 or more employees who worked for the employer for at least twenty calendar weeks (...	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/pda/	[ "counting_note", "employee_threshold", "full_name", "requirement" ]	null	null	null	null	null	null
null	[ "law", "size_rule" ]	null	PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act	pump-act	PUMP Act	An employer shall provide- (1) a reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for such employee's nursing child for 1 year after the child's birth each time such employee has need to express the milk; and (2) a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworke...	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section218d&num=0&edition=prelim	An employer shall provide- (1) a reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for such employee's nursing child for 1 year after the child's birth each time such employee has need to express the milk; and (2) a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworke...	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/pump-act/	[ "full_name", "requirement", "small_employer_exemption" ]	no employee-count threshold	null	null	null	null	An employer that employs less than 50 employees shall not be subject to the requirements of this section, if such requirements would impose an undue hardship by causing the employer significant difficulty or expense when considered in relation to the size, financial resources, nature, or structure of the employer's bus...
null	[ "law" ]	50	Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended	section-503-affirmative-action-program-federal-contractors	Section 503 affirmative action program (federal contractors)	Contractors described in paragraph (b)(1) of this section shall, within 120 days of the commencement of a contract, prepare and maintain an affirmative action program at each establishment.	https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-41/section-60-741.40	The requirements of this subpart apply to every Government contractor that has 50 or more employees and a contract of $50,000 or more.	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/section-503-affirmative-action-program-federal-contractors/	[ "employee_threshold", "full_name", "requirement" ]	null	null	null	null	null	null
any worker who qualifies as an employee is counted, including part-time employees, seasonal employees, and temporary employees	[ "law" ]	15	Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964	title-vii-of-the-civil-rights-act	Title VII of the Civil Rights Act	to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin	https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/coverage-businessprivate-employers	If a complaint against a business (or some other private employer) involves race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability or genetic information, the business is covered by the laws we enforce if it has 15 or more employees who worked for the employer for at least twenty calendar weeks (...	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/title-vii-of-the-civil-rights-act/	[ "counting_note", "employee_threshold", "full_name", "requirement" ]	null	null	null	null	null	null
null	[ "law", "size_rule" ]	null	Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994	userra	USERRA	shall not be denied initial employment, reemployment, retention in employment, promotion, or any benefit of employment by an employer on the basis of that membership, application for membership, performance of service, application for service, or obligation	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section4303&num=0&edition=prelim	(4)(A) Except as provided in subparagraphs (B) and (C), the term "employer" means any person, institution, organization, or other entity that pays salary or wages for work performed or that has control over employment opportunities, including-	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/userra/	[ "coverage_trigger", "full_name", "requirement" ]	no employee-count threshold	null	null	null	any person, institution, organization, or other entity that pays salary or wages for work performed or that has control over employment opportunities	null
null	[ "law" ]	50	Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended	vevraa-affirmative-action-program-federal-contractors	VEVRAA affirmative action program (federal contractors)	Contractors described in paragraph (a) of this section shall, within 120 days of the commencement of a contract, prepare and maintain an affirmative action program at each establishment.	https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-41/section-60-300.40	The requirements of this subpart apply to every Government contractor that has 50 or more employees and a contract of $200,000 or more.	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/vevraa-affirmative-action-program-federal-contractors/	[ "employee_threshold", "full_name", "requirement" ]	null	null	null	null	null	null
100 or more employees, excluding part-time employees	[ "law" ]	100	Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act	warn	WARN	An employer shall not order a plant closing or mass layoff until the end of a 60-day period after the employer serves written notice of such an order	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section2101&num=0&edition=prelim	the term "employer" means any business enterprise that employs- (A) 100 or more employees, excluding part-time employees; or (B) 100 or more employees who in the aggregate work at least 4,000 hours per week (exclusive of hours of overtime);	https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/warn/	[ "counting_note", "employee_threshold", "full_name", "requirement" ]	null	null	null	null	null	null

US federal employment law thresholds by employee count

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Employee-count thresholds that trigger US federal employment laws, with the number quoted from the statute itself or from the enforcing agency's own coverage page -- never from a vendor summary. Two kinds of record: a law that states a count (Title VII, ADA, ADEA, GINA, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, FMLA, COBRA, the ACA employer mandate, WARN, EEO-1 reporting, IRCA) carries that number; a law whose coverage clause names who it covers without stating any employee count (FLSA, ERISA, the OSH Act, USERRA, FCRA, EPPA, the Equal Pay Act, the Consumer Credit Protection Act's garnishment rule, jury-duty protection) carries no threshold at all, is marked 'no employee-count threshold', and quotes the test its coverage does turn on. Note what the second kind does NOT say: that the law covers every employer. It says the statute sets no headcount -- several set some other test, and that test is quoted where the clause states one. A few laws state two counts, because a named class of employer is covered at a lower one -- EEO-1 reporting binds private employers at 100 but federal contractors at 50. Those records carry both numbers, so that reading only the headline figure cannot give the wrong answer to a contractor. Two further shapes exist because reference pages elsewhere get them wrong in the same direction, by printing a number as a threshold when it is not one. A law can cover every employer and separately excuse a small one -- the PUMP Act binds every FLSA employer and lets an employer under 50 out only if compliance would impose an undue hardship -- so that 50 is quoted as an exemption, with its condition attached, and the record carries no threshold. And a threshold can stop existing: the 50-employee affirmative-action programme requirement rested on Executive Order 11246, which was revoked in January 2025, so that record is marked 'threshold revoked' and quotes the order that revoked it rather than the number vendor summaries still publish.

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