{"id":108,"date":"2023-05-12T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=108"},"modified":"2023-05-18T18:26:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T18:26:34","slug":"new-york-post-nyc-council-votes-to-ban-weight-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2023\/05\/12\/new-york-post-nyc-council-votes-to-ban-weight-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Post: NYC Council votes to ban weight discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Find the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/12\/nyc-council-votes-to-ban-weight-discrimination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Olivia Land<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York City lawmakers approved a bill to ban weight and height discrimination this week, making the city the largest municipality in the country to ban anti-fat bias.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal passed the New York City Council by a vote of 44-5 on Thursday. The approved legislation will amend the city\u2019s administrative code to make perceived and actual weight and height discrimination illegal in employment, public accommodations and housing.<\/p>\n<p>The move was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMShaunAbreu\/status\/1656768296346165250?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spearheaded by Democratic Councilmember Shaun Abreu<\/a>, who said he was alerted to the need for \u201cchanging culture\u201d around weight after he gained 40 pounds during lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust recently someone who I considered to be a friend came up to me and touched my stomach and said, \u2018We\u2019re getting bigger there, buddy.\u2019 And it just speaks to the toxic culture that exists in the United States when it comes to people that are above their average peers\u2019 weight,\u201d he said of the experience,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ktvz.com\/money\/cnn-business-consumer\/2023\/05\/11\/new-york-city-passes-bill-banning-weight-discrimination-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">per KTVZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople with different body types are not only denied jobs and promotions that they deserve,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/12\/nyc-council-votes-to-ban-weight-discrimination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Olivia Land<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York City lawmakers approved a bill to ban weight and height discrimination this week, making the city the largest municipality in the country to ban anti-fat bias.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal passed the New York City Council by a vote of 44-5 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2023\/05\/12\/new-york-post-nyc-council-votes-to-ban-weight-discrimination\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}