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New York Joins California in Banning Race-Based Hair Discrimination in Employment

New York has become the second state, following California, to explicitly ban race-based hair discrimination in employment. On July 12, 2019, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed S.6209A/A.7797A amending the Human Rights Law to expand the definition of...
By: Faegre Baker Daniels
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/new-york-joins-california-in-banning-59867/

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