NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A887
SPONSOR: Rosenthal L TITLE OF BILL:
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
PURPOSE:
This bill provides incentives to New York State employers to take
actionable steps to reduce the gender pay gap.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section one amends section 194 of the labor law by adding a new subdivi-
sion five.
Section two sets forth the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Despite federal and state law requiring equal pay for women and men, a
pay gender-based pay gap continues to exist in New York State and across
the country. This legislation would encourage employers to take steps to
close the pay gap by providing certificates of compliance to any private
or public company that achieves usage differentials of 10% or less
between women and men in the same or comparable positions.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2021-22: A.3281 - Referred to Labor
2019-20: A.1305 - Referred to Labor
2017-18: A.511 - Referred to Labor
2015-16: A.8385 - Referred to Labor
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Undetermined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This bill shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it becomes law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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887
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- 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.
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