N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2799-gggg: Equal employment opportunities

§ 2799-gggg. Equal employment opportunities. 1. The corporation shall

not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment because

of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age,

disability or marital status, and will undertake or continue programs of

affirmative action to ensure that minority group persons and women are

afforded equal employment opportunity without discrimination. Such

action shall be taken with reference, but not be limited, to

recruitment, employment, job assignment, promotion, upgrading, demotion,

transfer, layoff, termination, rate of pay or other forms of

compensation, and selections for training or retraining, including

apprenticeship and on-the-job training.

2. The corporation shall request each employment agency, labor union,

or authorized representative of workers with which it has a collective

bargaining or other agreement or understanding, to furnish a written

statement that such employment agency, labor union or representative

shall not discriminate because of race, creed, color, national origin,

sex, sexual orientation, age, disability or marital status and that such

union or representative will cooperate in the implementation of the

corporation's obligations hereunder.

3. The corporation shall state, in all solicitations or advertisements

for employees placed by or on behalf of the corporation, that all

qualified applicants will be afforded equal employment opportunity

without discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin,

sex, sexual orientation, age, disability or marital status.

4. The corporation shall seek meaningful participation by minority

business enterprises in the programs of the corporation and shall

actively and affirmatively promote and assist their participation in the

corporation's programs, so as to facilitate the award of a fair share of

contracts to such enterprises. For purposes hereof, "minority business

enterprise" shall mean any business enterprise which is at least

fifty-one per centum owned by, or in the case of publicly owned

business, at least fifty-one per centum of the stock of which is owned

by, citizens or permanent resident noncitizens who are Black, Hispanic,

Asian, American Indian or women, and such ownership interest is real,

substantial and continuing.