We are a city agency that enforces the nation's strongest city anti-discrimination law, the NYC Human Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination in the workplace, housing, and in public spaces.
Sadly there's still a gap in our law and while the legislature in Massachusetts took important steps a few years ago to ban discrimination against transgender folks in the workplace, housing and in schools, they did not address places of public accommodation and that's just not right.
The Human Rights Act protects certain groups, prone to discrimination, from being fired, evicted, or otherwise discriminated against in federally-regulated workplaces, housing projects, or through Ottawa-run services.
But, access to legibly and legally gendered identities also comes with access to institutions, like workplaces, housing, competitive sports, and all variety of public accommodations (like, restrooms for instance).
She is an expert in the area, and Biased promises to break down "the subtle — and sometimes dramatic — daily repercussions of implicit bias" in classrooms, workplaces, housing, criminal justice and other areas.
It got 38 such complaints dealing with workplace and housing discrimination after Sept. 11 and through the end of March, a 37percentt increase over the same period the year before.
Workplace health, housing, policing and the night-time economy (including bars, nightclubs and fast-food outlets) are just some examples of policies where public health teams now feel closer to power.
I say "estimated" because it is extremely difficult to find official figures on workplace racism, housing market exclusion and the prison population because of the perverse effects of France's strict interpretation of secularity.
So in order to try to make amends, the Mormon Church led the effort to pass a workplace and housing nondiscrimination law in Salt Lake City in 2009.
This guidance amounts to a license to discriminate against the LGBT community at the workplace, in housing, and in public accommodations.
