Assembly Bill A6680

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Prohibits employers from seeking salary history from prospective employees

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A6680 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §296, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A5982
2017-2018: A2040
2019-2020: A5308

2013-A6680 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits employers from seeking salary history from prospective employees; public awareness campaign.

2013-A6680 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6680

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 12, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Operations

AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting employers
  from seeking salary history from prospective employees

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Legislative intent.  The legislature hereby finds that New
York should lead the nation in preventing wage discrimination.
  The wage gap between men and women is  one  of  the  oldest  and  most
persistent effects of inequality between the sexes in the United States.
  The  1963  Equal  Pay  Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act in the United
States established the legal right to equal pay for equal work and equal
opportunity. Yet half a century later, women are still subjected to wage
gaps and paid less then men.
  The concept of comparable worth attacks the  problem  of  gender-based
wage  discrimination  by  mandating  that  jobs characterized by similar
levels of education, skill, effort, responsibilities, and working condi-
tions be compensated at similar wage levels regardless of the gender  of
the worker holding the job.
  The goal of pay equity is to raise the wages for undervalued jobs held
predominantly  by  women.    Today,  women  make only 77 cents per every
dollar earned by a man for a comparable job, a gender  wage  gap  of  23
percent.
  This  translates into thousands of dollars of lost wages each year for
each female worker, money that helps them feed their families, save  for
a college education and afford decent and safe housing.
  Pay disparities affect women of all ages, races, and education levels,
but  are  more  pronounced  for  women  of color. Minority women make as
little as 54 cents per dollar for a comparable job held by a man.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10201-02-3

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