Senate Bill S6342

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Prohibits employers from seeking salary history from prospective employees

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee


  • 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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2015-S6342 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5982
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง296, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A6680
2017-2018: S24, A2040
2019-2020: S51, A5308

2015-S6342 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2015-S6342 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S6342 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6342

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 6, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
  ment 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.
  Female-dominated  jobs pay twenty to thirty percent less than male-do-
minated jobs classified as comparable in worth and more than one half of
all women work in jobs that are over seventy percent female.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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