Bill Text: NY S03249 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-21 - PRINT NUMBER 3249A [S03249 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03249-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3249--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 3, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Civil  Service  and
          Pensions -- recommitted to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
          in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        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:
     1    Section  1.  Section 115 of the civil service law, as added by chapter
     2  790 of the laws of 1958, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 115.  Policy of the state. It is the policy of  New  York  state  to
     4  comply  with  the  letter  and  spirit  of the federal "Equal Pay Act of
     5  1963," Pub. L. 88-38 (29 U.S.C. § 206) which requires that employees  of
     6  both  sexes  receive equal pay for equal work, the federal "Civil Rights
     7  Act of 1964," Pub. L.   88-352 (42 U.S.C.  §  2000e-2)  which  prohibits
     8  discrimination  on  the  basis  of sex, race, and national origin in all
     9  terms of employment, article fifteen of the executive  law  and  section
    10  forty-c  of  the  civil rights law, which prohibit discrimination on the
    11  basis of sex, race or  national  origin  in  all  terms  of  employment.
    12  Consistent  with  these  laws, it is the policy of the state to ensure a
    13  fair, non-biased wage structure for its employees in which sex, race, or
    14  national origin is not a consideration either directly or indirectly  in
    15  determining the proper wages for a title in state service, nor in deter-
    16  mining  the  pay  for  any  individual  or group of employees.   For the
    17  purpose of this chapter,  the  terms  "wages"  and  wage  "rates"  shall
    18  include  all  compensation,  in  any  form, that an employer provides to
    19  employees in payment for work done or services rendered,  including  but
    20  not  limited to base pay, bonuses, commissions, awards, tips, or various
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03039-02-6