Bill Text: NY A01305 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to issuing a certificate of compliance to any employer who achieves a gender pay gap of 10% or less.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A01305 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01305-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          1305
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, ORTIZ -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to  issuing  certificates  of
          compliance to any employer who achieves a gender pay gap of 10 percent
          or less
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 194 of the labor law is amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5.  Any  employer in either the private or public sector that achieves
     4  wage differentials of ten percent or less between women and men  in  the
     5  same  jobs  and  in jobs that are dissimilar but that require equivalent
     6  composites of skill,  effort,  responsibility  and  working  conditions,
     7  shall  receive  a  certificate  of  compliance from the department which
     8  shall be displayed publicly on the department's website and may also  be
     9  posted publicly by the employer.
    10    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00525-01-9
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