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Assembly Bill A4240

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting employers from seeking salary history from prospective employees and implements a state policy of a fair, non-biased compensation structure

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2017-A4240 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§194, 197 & 198-a, Lab L; amd §115, Civ Serv L; amd §296, Exec L

2017-A4240 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to prohibiting employers from seeking salary history from prospective employees; prohibits employer compensation discrimination based on sex, race, or national origin and implements a state policy of a fair, non-biased compensation structure.

2017-A4240 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4240
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  NOLAN, CAHILL, COLTON, COOK, DICKENS, GALEF,
   GLICK, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, JEAN-PIERRE, JENNE, LIFTON,  MOSLEY,  ROZIC,
   SEAWRIGHT,  TITUS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, HYND-
   MAN, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law and the  executive  law,  in  relation  to
   prohibiting  employers  from  seeking  salary history from prospective
   employees; to amend the labor law in relation to prohibiting  employer
   compensation  discrimination  based  on sex, race, or national origin;
   and to amend the civil service law,  in  relation  to  implementing  a
   state policy of a fair, non-biased compensation structure
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 194 of the labor law, as added by  chapter  548  of
 the  laws  of 1966, subdivision 1 as amended and subdivisions 2, 3 and 4
 as added by chapter 362 of the laws of  2015,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  194.  Differential in rate of pay because of sex, RACE, OR NATIONAL
 ORIGIN prohibited. 1. No employee shall be paid a wage at  a  rate  less
 than  the  rate  at which an employee of [the opposite] A DIFFERENT sex,
 RACE, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN, in the same establishment is paid for equal OR
 SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR work on a job the performance  of  which  requires
 equal  OR  SUBSTANTIALLY  SIMILAR  skill, effort and responsibility, and
 which is  performed  under  similar  working  conditions,  except  where
 payment is made pursuant to a differential based on:
   a. a seniority system;
   b. a merit system;
   c.  a  system  which  measures  earnings  by  quantity  or  quality of
 production; or
   d. a bona fide factor other than sex, RACE OR NATIONAL ORIGIN, such as
 education, training, or experience. Such factor: (i) shall not be  based
 upon  or  derived from a [sex-based] SEX, RACE, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN BASED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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