Employment Nondiscrimination
Protections against employment discrimination based on genetic information.
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Records about employment nondiscrimination
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| Jurisdiction | Law or policy | Topics | Status | Summary |
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| United States | Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008Who Owns Your DNA?Statute · Signed: May 21, 2008Primary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, or GINA, is a federal law that restricts how covered health insurers and employers may use genetic information when making health-coverage or employment decisions. Separate parts of the law govern health coverage and employment. Each part contains its own definitions, exceptions, effective dates, and enforcement rules. |
| Hawaii | 2021 State Bills Hawaii 2021 HB 241NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Other Topics | Pending | Prohibits discrimination in employment and public accomodation based on an individual's invasive medical test status. Invasive medical test status is defined to include a medical test or screening that requires a sample of an individual's genetic material. Carries over to 2022 session. |
| Maine | 2021 State Bills Maine 2021 LD 29NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Enacted | Conforms the Maine Apprenticeship Program to the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. Requires a posting of statement that the apprentice will be accorded equal opportunity in all phases of apprenticeship employment and training, without discrimination because of various factors, including genetic information. 6/8/21 Signed by the Governor. Effective 90 days after adjournment (March 30, 2021). |
| Massachusetts | 2021 State Bills Massachusetts 2021 S. 2102NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Pending | Requires the commission on workplace harassment and sexual assault in the legislature to research and develop model workplace harassment policies for consideration and use by the Senate and House of Representatives. The model policies must address identity-based harassment, including harassment based on genetic information. Carries over to 2022. |
| Michigan | 2021 State Bills Michigan 2021 HB 4581NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Pending | Requires an employer that employs 50 or more individuals at any time during the calendar year at a single work site in the state to inform employees of, and keep posted at the work site in a conspicuous place where employees may conveniently read it, a notice that includes specified information. Required notification includes a statement that it is illegal under federal law to pay employees different wages for the same work based solely on various characteristics, including genetic information. Carries over to 2022. |
| Michigan | 2021 State Bills Michigan 2021 SB 327NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Pending | Requires an employer that employs 50 or more individuals at any time during the calendar year at a single work site in the state to inform employees of, and keep posted at the work site in a conspicuous place where employees may conveniently read it, a notice that includes specified information. Required notification includes a statement that it is illegal under federal law to pay employees different wages for the same work based solely on various characteristics, including genetic information. Carries over to 2022. |
| New Jersey | 2021 State Bills New Jersey 2021 A5354NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Other Topics | Died | Requires adoption of and training on anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policy by certain campaign committees. Protected category includes genetic information. Died. |
| New Mexico | 2021 State Bills New Mexico 2021 SB 408NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Other Topics, Privacy | Died | Establishes that every person, whether a minor or an adult, has the right of bodily integrity and the freedom to assert that right. A person may not be discriminated agains or denied public accommodation, housing accommodation, employment, government services or any other services offered to the general public or otherwise penalized for the assertion of the right of bodily integrity, including the right not to provide samples of bodily fluids, bodily tissue or genetic material. Died. |
| New York | 2021 State Bills New York 2021 A460NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Other Topics | Pending | Declares that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice for a hiring party to subject a model to harassment based on various characteristics, including predisposing genetic characteristics. Carries over to 2022. |
| New York | 2021 State Bills New York 2021 A700NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Other Topics | Pending | Requires companies to file a biennial climate report. The requirements for the form and content of the climate report at a minimum must include: (i) Company climate surveys to be filled out anonymously by employees, which are designed to assess such company's workplace environment including, but not limited to, pay equity, sexual harassment and discrimination based on an individual's age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status, marital status or domestic violence victim status. Carries over to 2022. |
| New York | 2021 State Bills New York 2021 S6681NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Other Topics | Pending | Declares that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice for a hiring party to subject a model to harassment based on various characteristics, including predisposing genetic characteristics. Carries over to 2022. |
| North Carolina | 2021 State Bills North Carolina 2021 HB 450NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Topics, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Pending | Prohibits discrimination based on various characteristics such as genetic information in the following areas: housing; employment; lending; education; public accommodation; insurance; and jury service. Carries over to 2022. |
| North Carolina | 2021 State Bills North Carolina 2021 SB 396NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Topics, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Pending | Prohibits discrimination based on various characteristics such as genetic information in the following areas: housing; employment; lending; education; public accommodation; insurance; and jury service. Carries over to 2022. |
| Vermont | 2021 State Bills Vermont 2021 S21NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Topics, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Prohibits discrimination based on an individual�s genetic information in relation to employment, labor relations, insurance coverage, and the provision of social and medical services. 1/13/2021 Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs. Carries over to 2022. |
| California | 2020 State Bills California 2020 SB 1423NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Requires any contracting entity that contracts with independent contractors to provide services to, on behalf of, or through the contracting entity on a freelance or per-gig basis, or virtual platform that enables third parties, including independent contractors, to transact with one another for services, or through which independent contractors can market, promote, or advertise their services to third parties, to maintain a written policy against the discrimination of an independent contractor on the basis of genetic information and other factors. Summary based on version of bill as amended on 5/6/2020 when all language from prior introduced version of bill was stricken. Died. |
| Maryland | 2020 State Bills Maryland 2020 HB 1560NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Enacted | Prohibits the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission from discriminating against a person on the basis of genetic information. Requires that contracts entered into by the Commission include a provision stating that contractors will not to discriminate in any manner against an employee or an applicant for employment based on a variety of factors, including genetic information. Enacted without Governor's signature 5/8/2020. Effective 10/1/2020. |
| New Jersey | 2020 State Bills New Jersey 2020 A4462NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Declares that it is an unlawful employment practice for an employer based on certain factors to require an employee who is the parent or legal guardian of a school aged child to be physically present for work, when that work can be performed remotely, during the public health emergency and state of emergency declared by the Governor. Specified factors include genetic information or the refusal to submit to a genetic test or make available the results of a genetic test. Died. |
| New Jersey | 2020 State Bills New Jersey 2020 A4892NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Creates the State Anti-Harassment and Workplace Discrimination Act. Declares that it is an unlawful employment practice and unlawful discrimination, for any person, whether an employee or applicant for employment, or intern or volunteer, in any State agency or Gubernatorial Transition Office, or person doing business with the State to discriminate against or harass an employee or applicant for employment, or intern or volunteer, based upon certain protected categories, genetic information. Died. |
| New Jersey | 2020 State Bills New Jersey 2020 S 3078NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Creates the State Anti-Harassment and Workplace Discrimination Act. Declares that it is an unlawful employment practice and unlawful discrimination, for any person, whether an employee or applicant for employment, or intern or volunteer, in any State agency or Gubernatorial Transition Office, or person doing business with the State to discriminate against or harass an employee or applicant for employment, or intern or volunteer, based upon certain protected categories, genetic information. Died. |
| New York | 2020 State Bills New York 2020 A9505NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Enacted | Declares that it is the policy of the state and all its political subdivisions to ensure a fair, non-biased compensation structure for all employees. Status within one or more protected class or classes may not be considered directly or indirectly in determining proper compensation or pay for any individual or group of employees, and no employee with status within one or more protected class to classes may be paid a wage at a rate less than the rate at which an employee without status within the protected class or classes in same establishment is paid for similar work. Protected class includes predisposing genetic characteristic. 4/3/2020 Signed by the Governor. |