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2012 New York Consolidated Laws
LAB - Labor
Article 9 - (230 - 239-A) PREVAILING WAGE FOR BUILDING SERVICE EMPLOYEES
239 - Provisions in contracts prohibiting discrimination on account of race, creed, color, national origin, age or sex.


NY Lab L § 239 (2012) What's This?
 
    §  239.  Provisions in contracts prohibiting discrimination on account
  of race, creed, color, national origin, age or sex. Every  contract  for
  service work shall contain provisions by which the contractor agrees:
    (1)  that in the hiring of employees for the performance of work under
  the contract or any subcontract thereunder within the territorial limits
  of this state, no contractor, subcontractor, nor any  person  acting  on
  behalf  of  such  contractor  or subcontractor, shall by reason of race,
  creed, color, national origin,  age,  sex  or  disability,  discriminate
  against  any  citizen  of  the  state  of  New York who is qualified and
  available to perform the work to which the employment relates;
    (2) that no contractor, subcontractor, nor any person  on  his  behalf
  shall,  in  any  manner, discriminate against or intimidate any employee
  hired for the performance of work under the contract on account of race,
  creed, color, national origin, age, sex or disability;
    (3) that there  may  be  deducted  from  the  amount  payable  to  the
  contractor  by  the  public agency under the contract a penalty of fifty
  dollars for each person for  each  day  during  which  such  person  was
  discriminated  against  or intimidated in violation of the provisions of
  the contract;
    (4) that the contract may be cancelled or  terminated  by  the  public
  agency,  and all moneys due or to become due thereunder may be forfeited
  for a second or any subsequent violation of the terms or  conditions  of
  this section of the contract.

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