Assembly Bill A762

2019-2020 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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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A762 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §118, add §119, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6712
2011-2012: A1780
2013-2014: A753
2015-2016: A437
2017-2018: A658

2019-A762 (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.

2019-A762 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    762
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, JAFFEE, PAULIN, GOTTFRIED, GALEF,
   WEPRIN, HEVESI, ENGLEBRIGHT, CRESPO,  STECK,  STIRPE,  SOLAGES,  OTIS,
   WALKER,  COLTON, M. G. MILLER, SEAWRIGHT, NIOU, BLAKE, ORTIZ -- Multi-
   Sponsored by -- M.  of A. BUCHWALD, COOK,  DINOWITZ,  EPSTEIN,  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.
                                                            LBD03288-01-9
              

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