Unfair employment practices.

WORKING DRAFT
2011
STATE OF
WYOMING
11LSO-0441

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0082

Unfair employment practices.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Byrd and Connolly and Senator(s) Hastert

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
fair employment practices; providing that discriminatory and unfair employment practices include retaliatory acts as specified;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 27
‑
9
‑
105(a)(i) and (ii)
is
amended to read:

27
‑
9
‑
105.

Discriminatory and unfair employment practices enumerated; limitations.

(a)

It is a discriminatory or unfair employment practice:

(i)

For an employer to refuse to hire, to discharge, to promote or demote, or to discriminate in matters of compensation or the terms, conditions or privileges of employment against, a qualified disabled person or any person otherwise qualified, because of age, sex, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or
pregnancy
,
or to discriminate or retaliate against any person for having opposed any employment practice made unlawful under this section or for having made a charge, testified, assisted or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding or hearing under this act
;

(ii)

For a person, an employment agency, a labor organization, or its employees or members, to discriminate in matters of employment or membership against any person, otherwise qualified, because of age, sex, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or pregnancy, or a qualified disabled person
,
or to discriminate or retaliate against any person for having opposed any employment practice made unlawful under this section or for having made a charge, testified, assisted or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding or hearing under this act
;

Section 2.

This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

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