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COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

any individuals employment opportunities or status as an
employee because of race, color, religious creed,
ancestry, national origin, age, sex or marital status; to
prohibit an employment agency from failing or refusing to
refer or otherwise discriminate against any individual;
to prohibit labor organizations from excluding or
expelling from their membership or otherwise discriminate
against any individual due to race, color, religious
creed, ancestry, national origin, age, sex or marital
status; to prohibit any person to cause or coerce or
attempt directly or indirectly to cause or coerce any
person to discriminate against an individual; to prohibit
any person, employer, labor organization or employment
agency from printing or otherwise publishing any notice
or advertisement relating to employment which indicates
any preference, limitation, or specification based on
race, color, religious creed, ancestry, national origin,
age, sex or marital status, except when such a
preference, limitation or specification is a bona fide
occupational qualification for employment; to provide
that it shall be an unlawful employment practice for an
employer to hire an employee, for an employment agency to
classify or refer for employment any individual, or for a
labor organization to classify its membership, on the
basis of race, color, religious creed, age, sex, marital
status, national origin or ancestry, except in those
certain instances where such basis is a bona fide
occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the
normal operation of the particular business or
enterprise; to establish a commission panel on
employment, and to provide for the membership and
appointment thereto; to authorize the commission panel to
carry out adjudicatory and enforcement functions
pertaining to discrimination in employment; to authorize
the panel to make, issue, adopt, promulgate, and amend,
subject to the approval of the County Council, rules and
regulations necessary to effectuate the provisions of
this Act; to provide for the filing of written complaints
to the commission; to provide for the procedure for
investigation, conciliation and enforcement; to provide
for notice of public hearing on complaints; to provide
for the disposition of complaints following public
hearing by the commission after consultation with the
County Attorney; to authorize the commission panel to
issue cease and desist orders and to take other
affirmative action including, but not limited to,
reinstatement or hiring of employees with or without back
pay, as will effectuate the purposes of this Act; to
authorize the County Attorney to institute civil
proceedings to obtain compliance with a commission
panel's order; to authorize the commission panel to
certify a matter to the County Attorney in order that the
County Attorney may bring injunctive action under certain
circumstances; to provide that any person who has been