While there is less than a nautical mile between New York and New Jersey, from the coastline of Manhattan to the friendly confines of Bergen and Hudson Counties, the breadth of the Hudson River should not be minimized. It is, after all, procedurally and substantively, the grand separator between two drastically different employment-law arenas.
Substantive Anti-discrimination Laws
Pursuant to New York State Executive Law, Art. 15, §296, it shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer because of an individual’s age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status or domestic-violence victim status, to refuse to hire or employ or to bar or to discharge from employment such individual, or to discriminate against such individual in compensation or in terms, conditions or privileges of employment.
