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Adams signs law banning discrimination based on weight and height
The hill ^ | 05/26/2023 | Jared Gans

Posted on 05/26/2023 4:32:10 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) signed a bill into law on Friday to ban discrimination based on someone’s weight or height in employment, housing and public accommodations.

Adams said in a release that the law will “level the playing field” for residents and create more inclusive workplaces. The New York City Council overwhelmingly voted to pass the bill in a 44-5 vote earlier this month to have the city’s anti-discrimination policies cover both actual and perceived height and weight.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: adams; discrimination; law; weight
This is what he's worried about? 🙄
1 posted on 05/26/2023 4:32:10 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So I at 5’ 6.5” can apply to play for the New York Knicks and they’ll have to hire me? Woo Hoo! Bring on the multi-million dollar contract.


2 posted on 05/26/2023 4:35:43 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Hahaha...I like the way you think.


3 posted on 05/26/2023 4:41:22 PM PDT by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So now a company can be forced to hire a 400-pound fatty that they KNOW will have health issues over their career, instead of the normal-sized person who wouldn’t.


4 posted on 05/26/2023 4:43:56 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I thought that already was the law everywhere. There is the law saying you may apply but no law saying you must then be hired. Expect lobbying of equal opportunity hiring ratios for the short, old and fat.
How would that work for being a Fireman?


5 posted on 05/26/2023 4:45:29 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: EvilCapitalist

What actually will happen is some football lineman will come in one season fat and out of shape.

They will try to get him to work hard and get back into a weight/size where he is most effective and he’ll slack off then decide to sue the team, NFL and owner under this law.


6 posted on 05/26/2023 4:45:37 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe I’m on my way to becoming a basketball player after all of these decades.


7 posted on 05/26/2023 4:54:06 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Airlines will have to make special accomodations for xxxL people if this passes.


8 posted on 05/26/2023 4:58:25 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Just when you thought they have exhausted all potential bases of "discrimination" to crusade against.

Eventually they will have to draw from the zodiac for more.

9 posted on 05/26/2023 5:24:53 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We had an enormously overweight guy at a place I worked who ruined an expensive desk chair by sharting in it so many times it stunk up his office. Eventually the chair had a brown skidmark visible from eight feet away, like if you were standing at that distance to talk to him because of the odor, but then he got up and you could see it.


10 posted on 05/26/2023 5:29:30 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This isn’t going to do anything to get big fat mama off the welfare rolls. Between Section 8, EBT, cash disbursements, free phones, etc, they have no incentive to get a job even if someone was willing to hire them or was forced to hire them.


11 posted on 05/26/2023 5:42:49 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So discriminate based on waist measurement.

Next problem?


12 posted on 05/26/2023 6:17:06 PM PDT by threefinger
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Christi, Whoopie and Stacy are fleeing to NY.


13 posted on 05/26/2023 6:41:03 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Be calm and act.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I can’t wait for the short, dumpy swimsuit models.


14 posted on 05/26/2023 7:39:54 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More for the circus atmosphere, we have the bearded ladies, the men dressed as women, now we will have midgets and fat people


15 posted on 05/27/2023 3:30:36 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Here’s the text of the law...

https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5570369&GUID=DF289A07-73A5-4AFE-8932-7EA5D1FA6577

As usual Deep State left itself a ****load of outs.

Everyone else is pretty much screwed.


16 posted on 05/27/2023 3:40:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Look out for the 400-pound flight attendants on future airline travel.


17 posted on 05/27/2023 3:43:02 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s about time! I am 6 ft 4 inches and 250 pounds. I always wanted to be a jockey. I’ve got my applications in now with copies to my lawyer.


18 posted on 05/27/2023 3:44:24 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: John Milner

Do the Jets and Giants have offices in NYC, even though they play in NJ? Is the official place of employment in NJ or NYC?

It would affect Mets, Yanks, Rangers, I think the Islanders moved back to Nassau (?), and the Knicks.


19 posted on 05/27/2023 7:17:31 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

Brooklyn Nets too.


20 posted on 05/27/2023 7:17:51 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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