As one might expect, companies must refrain from engaging in direct or indirect discrimination — indirect discrimination being workplace rules, policies or requirements that disproportionately and
unfairly affect groups of people who share a certain protected characteristic.
Though the bill must ultimately be accepted at the state level, a
group of city council members, including Manhattan representatives Melissa Mark - Viverito, Robert Jackson and Ydanis Rodriguez, is voicing its support for the legislation via a resolution that was proposed to the council on Wednesday, saying the current law
unfairly affects people in their communities.