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This bill prohibits discrimination based on weight in employment, labor organizations, and public accommodations in New York.
Why it matters
Protects employees and job applicants from weight-based bias. , ensuring that decisions about hiring, firing, compensation, and working conditions cannot be based on a person's weight, unless weight is a legitimate job requirement.
Extends anti-discrimination protections to employment agencies and labor unions. , making it illegal for these organizations to treat individuals differently or exclude them from opportunities because of their weight.
Applies to public accommodations. (like restaurants, hotels, theaters, and other venues), meaning businesses cannot deny services, advantages, or facilities to someone based on their weight, thus promoting broader social inclusion.
Limits exceptions to rare cases where weight is a bona fide occupational qualification. , ensuring that most exclusions or requirements based on weight must be clearly justified and not used as a loophole for discrimination.
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Ban Weight Discrimination
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8689
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 25, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting discrimination against a person based upon weight
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 296-d to read as follows:
§ 296-d. Unlawful discriminatory practices relating to the weight of an individual. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice:
1. For an employer or licensing agency, because of an individual's weight, to refuse to hire or employ or to bar or to discharge from employment such individual or to discriminate against such individual in compensation or in terms, conditions or privileges of employment.
2. For an employment agency to discriminate against any individual because of weight in receiving, classifying, disposing or otherwise acting upon applications for its services or in referring an applicant or applicants to an employer or employers.
3. For a labor organization, because of the weight of any individual, to exclude or to expel from its membership such individual or to discriminate in any way against any of its members or against any employer or any individual employed by an employer.
4. For any employer or employment agency to print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement or publication, or to use any form of application for employment or to make any inquiry in connection with prospective employment, which expresses directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination as to weight, or any intent to make any such limitation, specification or discrimination, unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification.
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5. For any person, being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or employee of any place of public accommodation, resort or amusement, because of the weight of any person, directly or indirectly, to refuse, withhold from or deny to such person any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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