Sentences with phrase «discrimination under the city»
For the first time, New York City is explicitly prohibiting restaurants and bars from refusing alcoholic drink orders to mothers - to - be, with new guidelines that say doing so would represent discrimination under the city's Human Rights Law.
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The company has come under serious heat dealing with all sorts of different scandals from sexual harassment to discrimination, an exodus of executives (including a CEO / founder resignation), city - wide and country - wide bans, and countless boycotts, yet it's continued to grow at record levels.
This is especially true of Chicago, a city that absorbed tens of thousands of freed slaves during the Great Migration, who then suffered unprecedented housing and employment discrimination, and whose great - grandchildren live today under a regime of de facto segregation, in Southside slums rife with gun violence.
He explains similarities and differences between the state (NYSHRL) and city (NYCHRL) versions of the law in terms of protected classes, remedies, statutes of limitations, and defenses as well as delves into substantive rights under the laws, including a hostile work environment, disability discrimination, and retaliation.
The appeal, brought by the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) and the City of Vancouver (COV), seeks to overturn a finding that the Downtown Ambassadors private security program's targeted and repeated removal of homeless persons from public spaces in downtown Vancouver constituted discrimination under the BC Human Rights Code.
At issue now is what evidence must be present to show discrimination, with the DVBIA and the City of Vancouver arguing that there was not enough evidence to show that the removals were based on grounds protected under human rights law.
«Fire captains» discrimination suit reinstated»: The Omaha World - Herald today contains an article that begins, «Two Omaha fire captains on Monday won a federal appeal of a lawsuit that claims they were discriminated against under the City of Omaha's affirmative action plan.»
It concerns whether the city of Miami can bring claims against Wells Fargo and Bank of America for racially discriminatory predatory lending under the Fair Housing Act — or whether the law only allows suits by individuals directly affected by discrimination.