The law expands the types of data about its operations that the Commisson on Human Rights is obliged to report to the City Council. The law goes into effect on March 1, 2017.
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NYC Human Rights Law
Local Law 63 of 2015 ( (prohibiting initial inquires into arrest or conviction record in employment)
NYC Human Rights Law
The law expands protection against employment discrimination on the basis of arrest or criminal conviction. The key provision prohibits inquiries about arrests or convictions until a provisional...view
NYC Human Rights Law
The law protects against discrimination in employment or in licensing or permitting on the basis of a consumer credit history.
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NYC Human Rights Law
While the City Human Rights Law definition of place or provider of public accommodation has been maximally broad since 1991, the operative public accommodations provision did not have updated...view
NYC Human Rights Law
The City Human Rights Law has already protected survivors of domestic violence against discrimination in employment and mandated that reasonable accommodation be made for those survivors. This law...view
NYC Human Rights Law
When protection against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was added to the City Human Rights Law in 1986, the price was a disclaimer clause to deal with irrational fears still held by...view
NYC Human Rights Law
The law expands the availability of attorney’s fees to administrative proceedings, explicitly makes expert fees available in both administrative and court proceedings, eliminates the penalty...view
NYC Human Rights Law
The law prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of caregiver status.
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NYC Human Rights Law
The law makes clear that courts are to develop an independent body of jurisdiction that is maximally protective of civil rights in all circumstances, that a goal of the City Human Rights Law is to...view
NYC Human Rights Law
The law provides an explicit statutory basis for testing across all contexts of discrimination, makes explicit a cause of action for indirect discrimniation (imputing the protected class status of an...view