Bill Text: NY A07618 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to geographic pay differentials for state employees; requires geographic pay differentials that are identical to the locality pay adjustments of the federal government.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental employees [A07618 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07618-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7618 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to geographic pay differentials for state employees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 130 of the civil service law, as 2 amended by chapter 74 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 7. Geographic pay differentials. [Whenever the director finds that5under community wage practices in private or other public employment in6one or more areas or locations, wage rates of employees in a given occu-7pation are substantially higher than the wage rates paid by the state,8he may, subject to the approval of the director of the budget, authorize9a pay differential to be added as an adjustment to the hiring rate, the10job rate and the longevity steps of the salary grade or grades for the11same or related occupations in the state service in such areas or12locations. A pay differential under this subdivision shall be a13percentage or a fixed dollar amount as prescribed in each case by the14director of the classification and compensation division subject to15approval of the director of the budget. Such differentials shall be paid16to employees whose basic annual salary is at or below the unadjusted job17rate of the salary grade or at or below the unadjusted longevity step of18the salary grade to which the employees are entitled based on the crite-19ria specified in subdivision three of this section. Those employees20whose basic annual salary is above the unadjusted job rate for the sala-21ry grade and who are not entitled to be paid at a longevity step shall22receive a portion of the differential sufficient to increase their sala-23ry to the adjusted job rate. Those employees whose basic annual salary24is above the unadjusted longevity step to which they are entitled shall25receive a portion of the differential sufficient to increase their sala-EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11651-01-9A. 7618 2 1ry to such longevity step as adjusted by the differential. Such differ-2entials shall be in addition to and shall not be part of an employee's3basic annual salary, and shall not affect or impair any performance4advancement payments, performance awards, longevity payments or other5rights or benefits to which an employee may be entitled under the6provisions of this chapter, provided, however, that any differential7payable pursuant to this subdivision shall be included as compensation8for retirement purposes. A pay differential shall be terminated for any9employee when he ceases to be employed in the position, or area or10location for which such pay differential was authorized. A pay differen-11tial shall remain in effect until terminated by the director of the12classification and compensation division, with the consent of the direc-13tor of the budget or until a new pay differential is authorized pursuant14to this subdivision. The director of the budget may adopt such regu-15lations as he may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this16subdivision. Employees who on April first, nineteen hundred seventy-nine17are receiving additional compensation as a result of a previous determi-18nation to authorize a geographic area pay differential shall continue to19receive such additional compensation while employed in the position for20which such differential was authorized.] By April first of each year, 21 the director shall implement geographic pay differentials identical to 22 the locality pay adjustments of the federal government which take effect 23 on or about January first of that year. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 25 have become a law.