SECTION 296
Unlawful discriminatory practices
Executive (EXC) CHAPTER 18, ARTICLE 15
§ 296. Unlawful discriminatory practices. 1. It shall be an unlawful
discriminatory practice:
(a) For an employer or licensing agency, because of an individual's
age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration
status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military
status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial
status, marital status, or status as a victim of domestic violence, to
refuse to hire or employ or to bar or to discharge from employment such
individual or to discriminate against such individual in compensation or
in terms, conditions or privileges of employment.
(b) For an employment agency to discriminate against any individual
because of age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or
immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics,
familial status, marital status, or status as a victim of domestic
violence, in receiving, classifying, disposing or otherwise acting upon
applications for its services or in referring an applicant or applicants
to an employer or employers.
(c) For a labor organization, because of the age, race, creed, color,
national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, military status, sex, disability,
predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status, marital status,
or status as a victim of domestic violence, of any individual, to
exclude or to expel from its membership such individual or to
discriminate in any way against any of its members or against any
employer or any individual employed by an employer.