Int 0702-2022
Prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of having a tattoo.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Civil and Human Rightsintroduced 2022-09-29
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2022-09-29Passed: 2023-12-31
Summary
This bill would prohibit discrimination in employment based on a person having one or more tattoos. This provision would apply to employers, labor organizations, employment agencies, or joint labor-management committees that control apprentice training programs. This law does not prevent any of the covered entities from requiring that a person covers one or more visible tattoos during work hours.
Committee on Civil and Human Rights — Human Rights Commission, Equal Employment Practices Commission and Equal Employment Opportunity.
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Sponsors (23)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2022-09-29 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2022-09-29 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2023-02-28 · Committee on Civil and Human Rights
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2023-02-28 · Committee on Civil and Human Rights
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2023-02-28 · Committee on State and Federal Legislation
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2023-02-28 · Committee on State and Federal Legislation
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2023-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (3)
Committee on State and Federal Legislation · 2023-02-28 · 10:00 AM · Committee Room - City Hall
Committee on Civil and Human Rights · 2023-02-28 · 10:00 AM · Committee Room - City Hall
City Council · 2022-09-29 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (10)
- Summary of Int. No. 702-A
- Summary of Int. No. 702
- Int. No. 702
- September 29, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-29-22
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 29, 2022
- Proposed Int. No. 702-A - 2/16/23
- Committee Report 2/28/23
- Hearing Testimony 2/28/23
- Hearing Transcript 2/28/23
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 8-10 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law 32 for the year 2022, is amended by adding a new definition of "tattoo" in alphabetical order to read as follows:
Tattoo. The term "tattoo" means any mark on the body of a person made with indelible ink or pigments injected beneath the outer layer of the skin.
� 2. Section 8-107 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision 33 to read as follows:
33. Applicability; tattoos. a. Unlawful discriminatory practices against persons with tattoos. (1) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to take the following actions based a person having one or more tattoos:
(a) Represent that any employment or position is not available when in fact it is available;
(b) Refuse to hire or employ such person;
(c) Bar or discharge from employment such person; or
(d) Otherwise discriminate against such person in compensation, or in terms, conditions or privileges of employment;
(2) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for a labor organization to, because of a person having one or more tattoos, exclude or to expel from its membership such person, to represent that membership is not available when it is in fact available, or to discriminate in any way against any of its members or against any employer or any person employed by an employer;
(3) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employment agency to, because of a person having one or more tattoos, receive, classify, dispose or otherwise act upon applications for its services, including by representing to such person that any employment or position is not available when in fact it is available, or in referring an applicant or applicants for its services to an employer or employers; or
(4) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any joint labor-management committee controlling apprentice training programs or an employee or agent thereof to, because of a person having one or more tattoos, discriminate against any person in such person's pursuit of such program or to discriminate against such a person in the terms, conditions or privileges of such program.
b. Nothing in this subdivision shall prevent a covered entity from requiring that a person covers one or more visible tattoos during hours of employment.
� 3. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.
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