New York City Council Expands Fair Chance Act | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The New York City Council has amended the Fair Chance Act (FCA) to expand employment protections for job applicants and employees with criminal conviction histories. The amendments became law on January 10, 2021, (upon being returned to the Council unsigned by Mayor Bill de Blasio) and take effect on July 29, 2021. General Overview As detailed in our prior advisory, the FCA prohibited most New York City employers from making inquiries into an applicant's criminal conviction history until after extending to the applicant a conditi...
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