Brooklyn Union Gas Co. v. New York State Human Rights Appeal Board

We hold that the provisions of subdivision 3 of section 205 of our State’s Disability Benefits Law do not operate to shelter employment practices in the private sector *86that would otherwise be impermissibly discriminatory under our Human Rights Law. The imperative of the latter overrides the permissiveness of the former.

We have held that an employment personnel policy which singles out pregnancy and childbirth for treatment different from that accorded other instances of physical or medical impairment or disability is prohibited by the Human Rights Law (Union Free School Dist. No. 6, Towns of…