What does BFOQ stand for?

if sex is a bona fide occupational qualification for the job of airline stewardesses, it would follow that an airline company could impose further qualifications with respect to such jobs and require that the employee be single and under a certain age.

I don't think it's related to their bona fide occupational qualifications.

Appeals Court BFOQ -- Bona Fide Occupational Qualification SEX DISCRIMINATION Everson v.

Of course, if your church were hiring a priest, you could require that the priest be Catholic rather than Muslim, since religious affiliation would be a bona fide occupational qualification for the job.

The judge concluded that there were no bona fide occupational qualifications relating to Delta's weight requirements and preemployment physical examinations and that Delta used unlawful preemployment inquiries into the applicants' age, disability, marital status, gender, or national origin.

4) Put another way, Title VII prohibits employers from taking race, color, national origin, religion, or sex into consideration when making decisions on employment actions, regardless of their motives, unless an exception to the statute, such as preference to remedy past discrimination (affirmative action) or the Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ) exception, permitting such consideration is applicable.

Impairment rating procedures, disability determination, the worker compensation process, worker hiring practices, and the bona fide occupational qualification defense are discussed in sufficient detail to afford an adequate understanding of the nonclinical issues of industrial medicine.

The Court compared the RFOA exception to the bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ) exception, an ADEA exemption the Court had already determined was an affirmative defense, placing the burden of persuasion on the party claiming its benefits - employers - and found it "impossible to look at the text and structure of the ADEA and imagine that the RFOA clause works differently from the BFOQ clause next to it.