assembly Bill A658

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes policy of equal pay for both sexes and equivalent value of work and directs the taking of corrective action

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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Apr 16, 2018 referred to civil service and pensions
delivered to senate
passed assembly
Jan 03, 2018 ordered to third reading cal.54
returned to assembly
died in senate
Apr 04, 2017 referred to civil service and pensions
delivered to senate
passed assembly
ordered to third reading rules cal.34
rules report cal.34
reported
reported referred to rules
Mar 22, 2017 reported referred to ways and means
Jan 09, 2017 referred to governmental employees

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A658 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5480
Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §118, add §119, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6712, S5271
2011-2012: A1780, S248
2013-2014: A753, S1871
2015-2016: A437, S3249
2019-2020: A762, S838

A658 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Seeks to comply with the federal equal pay act of 1963 by implementing a state policy of compensating employees in state service equally for work of comparable value by eliminating wage inequality in job titles having been segregated by sex, race or national origin; requires the president of the civil service commission to report annually to the legislature and the governor on those segregated titles for which wage disparity exists; mandates governor to appropriate monies to ensure wage disparities are corrected.

A658 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   658

                       2017-2018 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 9, 2017
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL, JAFFEE, PAULIN, GOTTFRIED, GALEF,
  WEPRIN,  HEVESI,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  SKOUFIS,  CRESPO,  STECK,   SKARTADOS,
  STIRPE,  SOLAGES,  OTIS, WALKER, COLTON, M. G. MILLER, JENNE -- Multi-
  Sponsored by -- M. of A.   BUCHWALD, COOK, DINOWITZ,  FARRELL,  GLICK,
  LUPARDO,  PERRY  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Govern-
  mental Employees

AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in  relation  to  implementing  a
  state  policy  of setting salaries on the basis of equivalent value of
  work

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 118 of the civil
service law, as added by chapter 790 of the laws of 1958, is amended and
three new paragraphs (d), (e) and (f) are added to read as follows:
  (c)  The  principle  of  fair  and  equal pay for similar work AND FOR
EQUIVALENT VALUE OF WORK shall be followed  in  the  classification  and
reclassification and the allocation and reallocation of positions pursu-
ant  to  this  article  and all positions having the same title shall be
allocated to the same salary grade.  EQUIVALENT VALUE OF WORK SHALL MEAN
TITLES OR POSITION CLASSIFICATIONS THAT ARE EQUAL WITHIN THE MEANING  OF
THE EQUAL PAY ACT OF 1963, 29 U.S.C. 206(D), OR TITLES OR POSITION CLAS-
SIFICATIONS  THAT  ARE DISSIMILAR BUT WHOSE REQUIREMENTS ARE EQUIVALENT,
WHEN VIEWED AS A COMPOSITE OF SKILLS, EFFORT, RESPONSIBILITY AND WORKING
CONDITIONS. THE PRINCIPLE OF FAIR AND EQUAL PAY FOR EQUIVALENT VALUE  OF
WORK  REQUIRES  THAT CONSIDERATION OF SEX, RACE OR NATIONAL ORIGIN SHALL
NOT INFLUENCE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COMPENSATION.
  (D) IT SHALL NOT BE AN UNLAWFUL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE FOR AN EMPLOYER TO
PAY DIFFERENT COMPENSATION TO EMPLOYEES, WHERE SUCH  PAYMENTS  ARE  MADE
PURSUANT TO:
  (1) A BONA FIDE SENIORITY OR MERIT SYSTEM;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01714-01-7