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Int 0871-2024

Extending reasonable workplace accommodations to caregivers.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Civil and Human Rightsintroduced 2024-05-16

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2024-05-16Passed: 2025-12-31

Summary

This bill would extend the right to reasonable workplace accommodations to caregivers, as defined in the New York City Human Rights Law. The bill would also require employers to participate in cooperative dialogue regarding the caregiver’s reasonable accommodations.

Committee on Civil and Human RightsHuman Rights Commission, Equal Employment Practices Commission and Equal Employment Opportunity.

How it compares

28% of similar bills passed

14 passed · 36 died

This bill: 593 days in committee

Similar bills: median 429 days · 236 days when passed

Sponsors (15)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2024-05-16 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2024-05-16 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2024-12-12 · Committee on Civil and Human Rights
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2024-12-12 · Committee on Civil and Human Rights
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2025-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (2)

Committee on Civil and Human Rights · 2024-12-12 · 1:00 PM · Committee Room - City Hall
City Council · 2024-05-16 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (10)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Subdivision 15 of section 8-107 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 63 for the year 2018, is amended to read as follows: 15. Applicability; persons with disabilities and caregivers. (a) Requirement to make reasonable accommodations to the needs of person with disabilities and caregivers. Except as provided in paragraph (b), it is an unlawful discriminatory practice for any person prohibited by the provision of this section from discriminating on the basis of disability not to provide a reasonable accommodation to enable a person with a disability or a caregiver to satisfy the essential requisites of a job or enjoy the right or rights in question provided that the disability is known or should have been known by the covered entity. � 2. Subparagraph (2) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 28 of section 8-107 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 59 for the year 2018, is amended to read as follows: (2) Related to a disability or caregiver status as provided in subdivision 15 of this section; � 3. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law. PS LS #12620 7/10/23 10:30AM