N.J. DCA Landlord/Tenant Information Series — Discrimination Law

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N.J. DCA Landlord/Tenant Information Series — Discrimination Law
Jurisdiction
New Jersey (state)
Source
Official source
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https://www.nj.gov/dca/codes/publications/pdf_lti/discrim_in_hsing.pdf ↗

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a. For an employer, because of the race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age,
marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, affectional or sexual orientation,
genetic information, sex, gender identity or expression, disability or atypical hereditary cellular
or blood trait of any individual, or because of the liability for service in the Armed Forces of the
United States or the nationality of any individual, or because of the refusal to submit to a genetic
test or make available the results of a genetic test to an employer, to refuse to hire or employ or
to bar or to discharge or require to retire, unless justified by lawful considerations other than age,
from employment such individual or to discriminate against such individual in compensation or
in terms, conditions or privileges of employment; provided, however, it shall not be an unlawful
employment practice to refuse to accept for employment an applicant who has received a notice
of induction or orders to report for active duty in the armed forces; provided further that nothing
herein contained shall be construed to bar an employer from refusing to accept for employment
any person on the basis of sex in those certain circumstances where sex is a bona fide
occupational qualification, reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular
business or enterprise; provided further that nothing herein contained shall be construed to bar an
employer from refusing to accept for employment or to promote any person over 70 years of age;
provided further that it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for a club exclusively
social or fraternal to use club membership as a uniform qualification for employment, or for a
religious association or organization to utilize religious