# Consumer Credit Protection Act — US federal employment law thresholds by employee count

For Consumer Credit Protection Act, size rule is no employee-count threshold; requirement is No employer may discharge any employee by reason of the fact that his earnings have been subjected to garnishment for any one indebtedness; counting note is 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, recorded from its source on 2026-09-29; source re-checked 2026-11-01.

- **Law:** Consumer Credit Protection Act _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Full name:** Consumer Credit Protection Act _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Size rule:** no employee-count threshold _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Requirement:** No employer may discharge any employee by reason of the fact that his earnings have been subjected to garnishment for any one indebtedness _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Counting note:** 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 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_

## What the source says

> No employer may discharge any employee by reason of the fact that his earnings have been subjected to garnishment for any one indebtedness.

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Law

> may be cited as the 'Consumer Credit Protection Act'.

### Full name

> may be cited as the 'Consumer Credit Protection Act'.

### Size rule

> No employer may discharge any employee by reason of the fact that his earnings have been subjected to garnishment for any one indebtedness.

### Requirement

> No employer may discharge any employee by reason of the fact that his earnings have been subjected to garnishment for any one indebtedness.

### Counting note

> Except as provided in subsection (b) and in section 1675 of this title, 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, or

## Source

- https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section1674&num=0&edition=prelim
- https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section1673&num=0&edition=prelim
- https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section1601&num=0&edition=prelim

Last verified: 2026-11-01. Review by: 2027-09-29.
Part of [US federal employment law thresholds by employee count](https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/).