Bill Text: NY A01988 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the department of labor to create an annual pay data report to compile statistics and information pertaining to employers that have one hundred or more employees and who are required to file an annual Employer Information Report pursuant to federal law; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to labor [A01988 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01988-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1988

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ, SIMON, DAVILA, FERNANDEZ, REYES, EPSTEIN,
          COOK, McDONOUGH, DeSTEFANO, JEAN-PIERRE, GOTTFRIED, GRIFFIN --  Multi-
          Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.  SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to an annual pay data report

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 194-b to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 194-b. Annual pay data report.  1. On or before March  thirty-first,
     4  two thousand twenty-three, and on or before March thirty-first each year
     5  thereafter,  a  private  employer that has one hundred or more employees
     6  and who is required  to  file  an  annual  Employer  Information  Report
     7  (EEO-1)  pursuant  to  federal law shall submit a pay data report to the
     8  department covering the prior calendar year, which, for purposes of this
     9  section, shall be referred to as the "Reporting Year."
    10    2. The pay data report shall include the following information:
    11    (a) The number of employees by race, ethnicity, and sex in each of the
    12  following job categories:
    13    (i) Executive or senior level officials and managers;
    14    (ii) First or mid-level officials and managers;
    15    (iii) Professionals;
    16    (iv) Technicians;
    17    (v) Sales workers;
    18    (vi) Administrative support workers;
    19    (vii) Craft workers;
    20    (viii) Operatives;
    21    (ix) Laborers and helpers; and
    22    (x) Service workers.
    23    (b) The number of employees by race, ethnicity, and sex, whose  annual
    24  earnings  fall  within  each  of the pay bands used by the United States

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02860-01-1

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     1  Bureau of Labor Statistics in  the  Occupational  Employment  Statistics
     2  survey.
     3    (c)  For  purposes of establishing the numbers required to be reported
     4  under subdivision one of this section, an employer shall create a "snap-
     5  shot" that counts all of the individuals in each job category  by  race,
     6  ethnicity,  and  sex, employed during a single pay period of the employ-
     7  er's choice between October  first  and  December  thirty-first  of  the
     8  "Reporting Year."
     9    (d) For purposes of establishing the numbers to be reported under this
    10  subdivision,  the  employer shall calculate the total earnings, as shown
    11  on the Internal Revenue Service Form  W-2,  for  each  employee  in  the
    12  "snapshot,"  for  the  entire "Reporting Year," regardless of whether or
    13  not an employee worked for the full calendar year.  The  employer  shall
    14  tabulate  and  report  the number of employees whose W-2 earnings during
    15  the "Reporting Year" fell within each pay band.
    16    3. The employer shall include in the report the total number of  hours
    17  worked  by  each employee counted in each pay band during the "Reporting
    18  Year."
    19    4. For employers with  multiple  establishments,  the  employer  shall
    20  submit  a  report  for each establishment and a consolidated report that
    21  includes all employees.
    22    5. The report shall include a section for employers to provide  clari-
    23  fying  remarks regarding any of the information provided. An employer is
    24  not required to provide clarifying remarks.
    25    6. If an employer is required to file an Employer Information  Report,
    26  otherwise  known  as  the  EEO-1  Report,  with  the United States Equal
    27  Employment Opportunity Commission or other federal agency that  includes
    28  the  same  or  substantially similar pay data information required under
    29  this section, the employer may satisfy compliance with this  section  by
    30  submitting the Employer Information Report to the department.
    31    7.  If  the  department  does  not receive the required report from an
    32  employer, the department may seek an order  requiring  the  employer  to
    33  comply  with  these  requirements  and  shall be entitled to recover the
    34  costs associated with seeking the order for compliance.
    35    8. It shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of the  department
    36  to  make  public  in any manner whatsoever any individually identifiable
    37  information obtained pursuant to  their  authority  under  this  section
    38  prior  to  the institution of an investigation or enforcement proceeding
    39  by the department involving that information, and  only  to  the  extent
    40  necessary  for  purposes of the enforcement proceeding. For the purposes
    41  of this subdivision, "individually  identifiable  information"  includes
    42  data that is associated with a specific person or business.
    43    9.  Any  information  disclosed  to  the  department  pursuant to this
    44  section shall be considered confidential information and not subject  to
    45  disclosure pursuant to the public officers law.
    46    10.  Notwithstanding subdivision seven of this section, the department
    47  may develop and publicize aggregate reports based on the  data  obtained
    48  pursuant to their authority under this section, provided that the aggre-
    49  gate reports are reasonably calculated to prevent the association of any
    50  data with any individual business or person.
    51    11.  The  department shall maintain pay data reports for not less than
    52  ten years.
    53    12. For purposes of this section, both of  the  following  definitions
    54  shall apply:

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     1    (a) "Employee" means an individual on an employer's payroll, including
     2  a  part-time  individual,  for whom the employer is required to withhold
     3  federal social security taxes from that individual's wages.
     4    (b)   "Establishment"  means  an  economic  unit  producing  goods  or
     5  services.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     7  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
     8  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     9  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    10  completed on or before such effective date.
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