{"id":165,"date":"2023-11-26T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=165"},"modified":"2024-06-10T19:51:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:51:08","slug":"new-york-post-nyc-law-banning-discrimination-based-on-height-and-weight-goes-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2023\/11\/26\/new-york-post-nyc-law-banning-discrimination-based-on-height-and-weight-goes-into-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Post: NYC law banning discrimination based on height and weight goes into effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/26\/metro\/nyc-law-banning-discrimination-based-on-height-weight-goes-takes-effect\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/26\/metro\/nyc-law-banning-discrimination-based-on-height-weight-goes-takes-effect\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Steve Janoski<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new city law that bans discriminating against someone because of their height or weight went into effect last week, six months after Mayor Eric Adams first signed the legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The law adds those two categories to the list of characteristics that are protected from housing, job and public discrimination \u2014 alongside things like age, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/26\/nyregion\/weight-discrimination-law-nyc.html?partner=slack&amp;smid=sl-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll New Yorkers, regardless of their body shape or size, deserve to be protected from discrimination under the law,\u201d NYC City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Councilman Shaun Abreu said in a joint statement Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBody size discrimination affects millions of people every year, contributing to harmful disparities in medical treatment and outcomes, blocking people from access to opportunities in employment, housing and public accommodations, and deepening existing injustices that people face,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNew York City is leading the nation with this groundbreaking anti-discrimination law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/26\/metro\/nyc-law-banning-discrimination-based-on-height-weight-goes-takes-effect\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/26\/metro\/nyc-law-banning-discrimination-based-on-height-weight-goes-takes-effect\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Steve Janoski<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new city law that bans discriminating against someone because of their height or weight went into effect last week, six months after Mayor Eric Adams first signed the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The law adds those two categories to the list of characteristics that are protected from housing, job and public discrimination \u2014 alongside things like age, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2023\/11\/26\/new-york-post-nyc-law-banning-discrimination-based-on-height-and-weight-goes-into-effect\/\">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-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}