[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR86.56]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                    SUBTITLE A--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

                           AND HUMAN SERVICES

 

PART 86_NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR 

ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents

 

Subpart E_Discrimination on the Basis of Sex in Employment in Education 

                    Programs or Activities Prohibited

 

Sec.  86.56  Fringe benefits.



    (a) Fringe benefits defined. For purposes of this part, fringe 

benefits means: Any medical, hospital, accident, life insurance or 

retirement benefit, service, policy or plan, any profit-sharing or bonus 

plan, leave, and any other benefit or service of employment not subject 

to the provision of Sec.  86.54.

    (b) Prohibitions. A recipient shall not:

    (1) Discriminate on the basis of sex with regard to making fringe 

benefits available to employees or make fringe benefits available to 

spouses, families, or dependents of employees differently upon the basis 

of the employee's sex;

    (2) Administer, operate, offer, or participate in a fringe benefit 

plan which does not provide either for equal periodic benefits for 

members of each sex, or for equal contributions to the plan by such 

recipient for members of each sex; or

    (3) Administer, operate, offer, or participate in a pension or 

retirement plan which establishes different optional or compulsory 

retirement ages based on sex or which otherwise discriminates in 

benefits on the basis of sex.



(Secs. 901, 902, Education Amendments of 1972, 86 Stat. 373, 374; 20 

U.S.C. 1681, 1682)