NYC Council · Int 0069-2024 · Enacted

Prohibiting provisions in employment agreements that shorten the period in which claims and complaints of unlawful discriminatory practices, harassment or violence may be filed and in which civil actions may be commenced.

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Derived from the official record below.

Officially: “A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting provisions in employment agreements that shorten the period in which claims and complaints of unlawful discriminatory practices, harassment or violence may be filed and in which civil actions may be...” Read the full text

Civil and Human Rights

What it does

Under Title 8 of the Administrative Code, people have one year to file a complaint with the NYC Commission on Human Rights for an unlawful discriminatory practice or act of discriminatory harassment or violence and three years to file a claim of gender-based harassment. In addition, they may commence a civil action within three years. This bill would make unenforceable and void any provision of any employment agreement that purports to shorten such periods.

Summary written by City Council staff, from the official record. Plain-language AI rewrite with cited sections coming. Not legal advice.