18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Notable · Needs Congress
Prohibit BA requirements in private sector job descriptions
Printed page 596 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies
“Prohibit the use of a BA requirement in job descriptions. Congress should prohibit the inclusion of a BA requirement in job descriptions for all private sector employers, or the use of a BA requirement to screen applicants using algorithms, except where a BA from a particular type of institution or in a particular field is a bona fide requirement of the position.”
What has happened
- Not started
No bill of the 119th Congress prohibits private sector employers from requiring a bachelor's degree in job descriptions or from screening applicants on a degree by algorithm. A title search of all 18,476 bills of the Congress for "bachelor" and "degree requirement" returns none.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Negative search: chapter log, Cluster negative search — the degree-and-skills asks.
- Executive Order 14278 section 3(e) asks for “strategies to identify alternative credentials and assessments to the 4-year college degree” — an executive study of alternatives inside federal workforce programs, not a prohibition on private employers, and therefore adjacent under §3b.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- BA requirements in private sector job descriptions
- ID
- 1643