{"id":213,"date":"2014-08-09T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T18:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2019-12-11T21:40:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:40:16","slug":"the-roots-of-fair-employment-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/the-roots-of-fair-employment-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of Fair Employment Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York State\u2019s extensive anti-discrimination Human Rights Law did not spring intact from the minds of New York\u2019s legislators. Instead, it built on existing federal and state laws to become one of the most inclusive, protective anti-discrimination laws in the nation.<\/p>\n

In 1945, New York\u2019s Ives-Quinn Act \u2014 the Law Against Discrimination \u2014 became law, making New York the first state to enact legislation curtailing discrimination against job applicants and employees based on race, religion or creed. The New York legislation developed from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s Fair Employment Practices Commission, which enforced executive order 8802. That order, resulting in part from the urging and activism of famous labor leader A. Philip Randolph, stated that \u201cthere shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin.\u201d The Ives-Quinn Act inspired Branch Rickey, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, to sign Jackie Robinson, changing the course of baseball history.
\nOver the next sixty-plus years, the Law Against Discrimination evolved into the Human Rights Law we know today. Successive movements added the following to the categories protected against employment discrimination in New York State:<\/p>\n