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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | May 2, 2014 10:57 AM |
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| From: | Representative Pam Snyder |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Co-sponsorship: Employment Discrimination Based on Marital or Familial Status (Redraft of HB 1984) |
| In the very near future, I will be reintroducing revised legislation amending the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act to prohibit employers, employment agencies, and labor organizations from discriminating against workers based on marital or familial status. It is all too clear that, even in 2014, quality workers and job candidates are often needlessly barred from good work opportunities because they are a single parent, a young worker planning a wedding or child, an older adult who must become a caregiver for a child, or even an unmarried individual. Unfortunately, under current law, candidate screenings or hiring decisions weighted on the individual’s personal home and family life are not always clearly considered to be discrimination. Accordingly, like HB 1984, my revised legislation would clarify that it is unlawful to ask job applicants or employees whether they currently are or intend to be married or have children, as well as prohibit hiring or other important workplace decisions based on these factors. I hope that you will join me in supporting this important legislation. Current co-sponsors of HB 1984 include: Bishop, Bizzarro, K. Boyle, V. Brown, Brownlee, Caltagirone, Carroll, Cohen, Davidson, Davis, Frankel, Freeman, Haggerty, W. Keller, Kinsey, Kortz, Mahoney, Matzie, McCarter, McGeehan, D. Miller, Molchany, Mundy, Neuman, O’Brien, Painter, Parker, Readshaw, Roebuck, Sabatina, Schlossberg, Swanger, and Thomas |
Introduced as HB2271