New Jersey's Acting Attorney General filed a civil rights complaint against the Pine Valley Golf Club alleging a 'pattern of gender-based discrimination' that 'has no place in New Jersey.'
LAD prohibits discrimination and bias-based harassment, according to a release from Platkin's office. The complaint against the club alleges these crimes in the areas of employment, housing and places of public accommodation.
"New Jersey will not tolerate policies or practices that discriminate on the basis of gender, including those that perpetuate the effects of past discrimination," DCR Deputy Director Rosemary DiSavino said. "The LAD prohibits policies and practices that are intended to, or have the effect of excluding people who identify as women. Failure to provide equal access to persons of all genders in housing, employment and places of public accommodation has consequences.
The Pine Valley Golf Club says it has lifted all restrictions on membership and use of its facilities based on sex or gender as of spring 2021, according to Platkin's office, but the complaint alleges a history of discrimination since its creation more than 100 years ago. Platkin's office says the club's female employees only make up 4% of the workforce with many of them working in positions of dishwasher, luncheonette staffer or laundry worker.
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