As city council man Brad Lander put it
One technique we will start using again is “matched-pair testing,” where two otherwise similar individuals – one black and one white, one straight and one gay, one abled and one disabled, one with and one without a housing voucher – both apply for an available apartment or job. The idea is to hold landlords and employers who systematically discriminate against New Yorkers accountable for their actions, with real investigations and tough sanctions. That’s part of how we’ll make change.
bradlander.com
A Local Law in relation to establishing an employment discrimination testing program.Be it enacted by the Council as follows:Section 1. Investigation of discrimination in employment using testers. a. For a period of one year, the commission on human rights shall organize and conduct no fewer than five investigations of discrimination in employment during which the commission shall use pairs of testers to investigate local employers, labor organizations or employment agencies and employees or agents thereof. Such investigations shall include but not be limited to using matched pairs of testers who shall apply for, inquire about or express interest in the same job and who shall be assigned similar credentials but who shall differ in one of the following characteristics: actual or perceived age, race, creed, color, national origin, gender, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation or alienage or citizenship status, or other characteristic protected pursuant to title 8 of the administrative code of the city of New York. The first of the investigations shall commence on or before October 1, 2015.b. On or before March 1, 2017, the commission shall submit to the speaker of the council a report related to employment investigations conducted during the prior 12 month periodcommencing on October 1, 2015. Such report shall include, but not be limited to: (i) the number of matched pair tests completed; (ii) identification of the industry of the employer where each completed matched pair test was conducted; (iii) the protected class variable used in each matched pair test; (iv) the number of incidents of actual or perceived discrimination by protected class for each such investigation; and (v) a description of any incidents of discrimination detected in the course of such investigations, provided that the commission shall not be required to report information that would compromise any ongoing or prospective investigation or prosecution.c. Any incidents of actual or perceived discrimination that occur during such investigations shall be referred to the commission's law enforcement bureau.d. Nothing herein shall preclude the commission from conducting other such discrimination testing programs or investigations pursuant to the commission's authority under this Code and the New York city charter.§ 2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon enactment.
here's the link to the similarly worded housing bill
The votes for both bills were identical; This vote is for both bills which were voted on individually
Melissa Mark-Viverito Maria Del Carmen Arroyo Inez D. Barron Fernando Cabrera Margaret S. Chin Andrew Cohen Costa G. Constantinides Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. Elizabeth S. Crowley Laurie A. Cumbo Chaim M. Deutsch Inez E. Dickens Daniel Dromm Rafael L. Espinal, Jr. Mathieu Eugene Julissa Ferreras Daniel R. Garodnick Vincent J. Gentile Vanessa L. Gibson David G. Greenfield Vincent Ignizio Corey D. Johnson Ben Kallos Andy L. King Peter A. Koo Karen Koslowitz Rory I. Lancman Brad S. Lander Stephen T. Levin Mark Levine Alan N. Maisel Steven Matteo Darlene Mealy Carlos Menchaca Rosie Mendez Donovan J. Richards Ydanis A. Rodriguez Deborah L. Rose Helen K. Rosenthal Ritchie J. Torres Mark Treyger Eric A. Ulrich James Vacca Paul A. Vallone James G. Van Bramer Mark S. Weprin Jumaane D. Williams Ruben Wills | Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Absent Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Negative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Absent Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Negative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Abstain Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative Affirmative | Flatbush Flatbush/Borough Park Kew Garden Hills Boro Park/Kensington Williamsburg Flatbush |
The mayor is requesting a 25% budget increase for the Human Rights Commission in fiscal year 2016, to $8.8 million from its current budget of $7 million. Those funds would help pay for a 51% staff increase to 100 employees from the agency's current staff of 66.
(crains new york)
In her second week on the job, Carmelyn P. Malalis, the new commissioner appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, was vowing to vigorously enforce the law and to revitalize the chronically underfinanced agency, which primarily serves residents who cannot afford to hire their own lawyers.
“I get that folks want to see results,” Ms. Malalis, a 40-year-old lawyer who specializes in workplace discrimination cases, said in an interview. “I know that we’re going to do some great work here.”
But the new commissioner, who lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, also has a personal stake in the fight.
Ms. Malalis, the daughter of Filipino immigrants, is "married" to a woman from Ethiopia and has two biracial daughters.
(NYT)
In her second week on the job, Carmelyn P. Malalis, the new commissioner appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, was vowing to vigorously enforce the law and to revitalize the chronically underfinanced agency, which primarily serves residents who cannot afford to hire their own lawyers.
“I get that folks want to see results,” Ms. Malalis, a 40-year-old lawyer who specializes in workplace discrimination cases, said in an interview. “I know that we’re going to do some great work here.”
But the new commissioner, who lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, also has a personal stake in the fight.
Ms. Malalis, the daughter of Filipino immigrants, is "married" to a woman from Ethiopia and has two biracial daughters.
(NYT)
How can these legislators who are supposed to represent us justify putting our community at risk for following the Torah?
Let's contact these legislators who have large Jewish constituencies and ask them how they can justify voting to harm the Jewish community!
Chaim Deutsch (718)368-9176 or (212)788-7360 cdeutsch@council.nyc.gov
David Greenfield (718)853-2704) or (718)853-2704 dgreenfield@council.nyc.gov
Rory Lancman (718)217-4969 or (212)-788-6956 RLancman@council.nyc.gov
Brad Lander (718)499-1090 or 212-788-6969 lander@council.nyc.gov
Steve Levin (718)875-5200 or (212)788-7348 slevin@council.nyc.gov
Jumaane Williams (718)629-2900 or 212-788-6859 JWilliams@council.nyc.gov
As a side point how come those who claim mesirah regarding molesters are silent here where mesirah clearly applies?
ימח שמם
ReplyDeletethey will burn in hell!
she is married to a woman. got back to the stone ages Alder. or at least move out of this country if you're so offended.
ReplyDeletea woman can't marry another woman, calling it a marriage, is less true then calling her a dog.
DeleteI will never accept lies for truth, and if you have a problem with that leave this country.
stop destroying a formally great country into the USSA