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FAR 52.222-21 Prohibition of segregated facilities.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This clause prohibits the contractor from maintaining or providing segregated facilities for its employees at any of its establishments, and from letting employees work at any location it controls where segregated facilities exist. A breach of this clause counts as a violation of the contract's Equal Opportunity clause. The contractor must also pass this clause down into covered subcontracts and purchase orders.

Applies to: Contractors and their covered subcontracts and purchase orders subject to the Equal Opportunity clause

What it requires

  • Do not maintain or provide segregated facilities for employees at any establishment
  • Do not permit employees to perform services at any location under the contractor's control where segregated facilities are maintained
  • Include this clause in every subcontract and purchase order subject to the Equal Opportunity clause of the contract

Key terms: Segregated facilities · Gender identity · Sexual orientation · Equal Opportunity clause · Establishments

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

As prescribed in 22.810(a)(1), insert the following clause:

Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (APR 2015)

(a) Definitions. As used in this clause—

Gender identity has the meaning given by the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and is found at www.dol.gov/ofccp/LGBT/LGBT_FAQs.html.

Segregated facilities means any waiting rooms, work areas, rest rooms and wash rooms, restaurants and other eating areas, time clocks, locker rooms and other storage or dressing areas, parking lots, drinking fountains, recreation or entertainment areas, transportation, and housing facilities provided for employees, that are segregated by explicit directive or are in fact segregated on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin because of written or oral policies or employee custom. The term does not include separate or single-user rest rooms or necessary dressing or sleeping areas provided to assure privacy between the sexes.

Sexual orientation has the meaning given by the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and is found at www.dol.gov/ofccp/LGBT/LGBT_FAQs.html.

(b) The Contractor agrees that it does not and will not maintain or provide for its employees any segregated facilities at any of its establishments, and that it does not and will not permit its employees to perform their services at any location under its control where segregated facilities are maintained. The Contractor agrees that a breach of this clause is a violation of the Equal Opportunity clause in this contract.

(c) The Contractor shall include this clause in every subcontract and purchase order that is subject to the Equal Opportunity clause of this contract.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

  • 22.810 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.

Sections that refer to it

  • 22.810 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
  • 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
  • 52.213-4 Terms and Conditions—Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services).
  • 52.244-6 Subcontracts for Commercial Products and Commercial Services.

← 52.222-20 Contracts for Materials, Supplies, Articles, and Equipment. · 52.222-22 Previous Contracts and Compliance Reports. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 52

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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