(a) It shall be an unlawful employment practice:
(1) For any employer to refuse to hire any person or otherwise to discriminate against any person with respect to hiring, tenure, compensation, promotion, discharge or any other terms, conditions or privileges directly or indirectly related to employment because of race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap, place of birth or age;
(2) For any employer, employment agency or labor organization to establish, announce or follow a policy of denying or limiting, through a quota system or otherwise, the employment or membership opportunities of any person or group of persons because of race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap, place of birth or age;
(3) For any employer, labor organization, employment agency or joint labor-management committee controlling apprentice training programs to deny to or withhold from any person the right to be admitted to or participate in a guidance program, an apprenticeship training program, an on-the-job training program or any other occupational training program because of race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap, place of birth or age;
(4) For any employer, employment agency or labor organization to require of any applicant for employment or membership any information concerning race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap, place of birth or age;
(5) For any employer, employment agency or labor organization to publish or circulate, or to cause to be published or circulated, any notice or advertisement relating to employment or membership which indicates any discrimination because of race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap, place of birth or age;
(6) For any employment agency to fail or refuse to classify properly or refer to employment or otherwise to discriminate against any person because of race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap, place of birth or age;
(7) For any employer substantially to confine or limit recruitment or hiring of employees, with intent to circumvent the spirit and purpose of this chapter, to any employment agency, employment service, labor organization, training school, training center or any other employee-referring source which serves persons who are predominantly of the same race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap, place of birth or age;
(8) For any labor organization to discriminate against any person in any way which would deprive or limit his or her employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his or her status as an applicant for employment or as an employee with regard to tenure, compensation, promotion, discharge or any other terms, conditions or privileges directly or indirectly related to employment because of race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap, place of birth or age;
(9) For any employer, employment agency or labor organization to discriminate against any person because he or she has opposed any practice forbidden by this chapter or because he or she has made a complaint or testified or assisted in any manner in any investigation or proceeding under this chapter; or
(10) For any person, whether or not an employer, employment agency or labor organization, to aid, incite, compel, coerce or participate in the doing of any act declared to be an unlawful employment practice by this chapter, or to obstruct or prevent any person from enforcing or complying with the provisions of this chapter, or to attempt directly or indirectly to commit any act declared by this chapter to be an unlawful employment practice.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a handicapped person to be employed or trained under circumstances that would significantly increase the occupational hazards affecting either the handicapped person, other employees, the general public or the facilities in which the work is to be performed, or to employ or train a handicapped person in a job that requires him or her routinely to undertake any task, the performance of which is substantially and inherently impaired by his or her handicap.
(Ord. 71-41. Passed 1-17-72; Ord. 74-18. Passed 5-20-74; Ord. 79-15. Passed 8-6-79; Ord. 16- 04. Passed 4-18-16.)
(c) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.