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                                 3786--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 17, 2015
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Introduced  by Sens. PARKER, HASSELL-THOMPSON, PERKINS -- 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 committee

AN ACT directing the president of the civil service commission to  study
  and  publish a report evaluating wage disparities among public employ-
  ers

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

  Section  1.  Policy  of  the  state. It is the policy of this state to
pursue the establishment of equitable compensation relationships between
female-dominated, male-dominated, and other segregated titles to  elimi-
nate  wage  disparities  in  public employment statewide.   Compensation
relationships are equitable when the primary consideration in  negotiat-
ing, establishing, recommending, and approving total wages is the equiv-
alent value of the job title content in relationship to other job titles
and position classifications in civil service.
  S 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this act,
  (a)  the    term  "public  employer" shall have the same meaning as in
subdivision six of section 201 of the civil service law;
  (b) the term "position classification" shall have the same meaning  as
in subdivision eleven of section two of the civil service law;
  (c)  the  term  "equal jobs" shall mean jobs that are equal within the
meaning of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, 29 U.S.C. 206(d);
  (d) the term "equivalent jobs" shall mean jobs or occupations that are
equal within the meaning of  the  Equal  Pay  Act  of  1963,  29  U.S.C.
206(d),  or  jobs  or occupations that are dissimilar but whose require-
ments are equivalent when viewed as a composite of the  skills,  effort,
responsibilities and working conditions required by the work;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (e) the term "comparable worth" shall mean the equivalent value of two
or  more  job  titles for the purpose of establishing equivalent compen-
sation; and
  (f)  the  term "wages" and "wage rates" shall include all compensation
in any form that an employer provides to employees in payment  for  work
done or services rendered, including but not limited to base pay, bonus-
es,  commissions, awards, tips, or various forms of non-monetary compen-
sation if provided in lieu of or in addition  to  monetary  compensation
and that have economic value to an employee.
  S  3.  The  president  of the state civil service commission is hereby
directed to study and publish a report evaluating among public employers
the existence of wage disparities related to the job  titles  segregated
by  the  gender,  race  and/or  national  origin of the employees in the
titles. The study and report shall include, but not be limited to:
  (a) the extent of wage disparities among job titles or position  clas-
sifications of equal value;
  (b)  the  extent  of segregation of job titles or position classifica-
tions by gender, race and national origin;
  (c) the identification of segregated job titles  or  position  classi-
fications that are equivalent and of comparable worth;
  (d)  the  extent of wage disparities in segregated job titles or posi-
tion classifications that are equivalent and of comparable worth;
  (e) the need for adjustment of wage rates for equivalent job titles or
position classifications to provide compensation  of  comparable  worth;
and
  (f)  the  plans  for adjusting wage rates and other recommendations to
address any wage disparities in both equal jobs and  in  segregated  job
titles or position classifications that are equivalent and of comparable
worth.
  S  4.  Such  study shall use methodologies, such as a systematic point
factor job evaluation system, that do not undervalue  jobs  or  position
classifications  that  disproportionately  employ  women  and/or  racial
and/or national origin minorities to analyze job title or position clas-
sification content and equivalent value.
  S 5. The president of the  civil  service  commission  shall  use  the
prescribed  methodology  to  determine  if there are wage disparities in
segregated titles based on the equivalent value of the work. The  presi-
dent  of  the  civil  service commission shall also, by January 1, 2018,
submit the above described published report to the speaker of the assem-
bly, the minority leader of the assembly, the temporary president of the
senate, the minority leader of the senate and the governor's  office  of
employee relations.
  S 6. This act shall take effect immediately.