Senate Bill S1136

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Prohibits employers from seeking salary history from prospective employees

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee


  • 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-S1136 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §296, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S5532

2019-S1136 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits employers from seeking salary history from prospective employees; establishes a public awareness campaign.

2019-S1136 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1136 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1136
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting  employers
   from seeking salary history from prospective employees

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds  that  New
 York should lead the nation in preventing wage discrimination.
   The  wage  gap  between  men  and  women is one of the oldest and most
 persistent effects of inequality between the sexes in the United States.
   The 1963 Equal Pay Act and the 1964 Civil Rights  Act  in  the  United
 States established the legal right to equal pay for equal work and equal
 opportunity. Yet half a century later, women are still subjected to wage
 gaps and paid less then men.
   The  concept  of  comparable worth attacks the problem of gender-based
 wage discrimination by mandating  that  jobs  characterized  by  similar
 levels of education, skill, effort, responsibilities, and working condi-
 tions  be compensated at similar wage levels regardless of the gender of
 the worker holding the job.
   The goal of pay equity is to raise the wages for undervalued jobs held
 predominantly by women.   Today, women make  only  77  cents  per  every
 dollar  earned  by  a  man for a comparable job, a gender wage gap of 23
 percent.
   This translates into thousands of dollars of lost wages each year  for
 each  female worker, money that helps them feed their families, save for
 a college education and afford decent and safe housing.
   Pay disparities affect women of all ages, races, and education levels,
 but are more pronounced for women  of  color.  Minority  women  make  as
 little as 54 cents per dollar for a comparable job held by a man.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03224-02-9
              

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