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PAY
EQUITY BILLS:
The
Women on the Job Task Force founded the New York State Pay
Equity Coalition (NYSPEC) to demonstrate the broad based support
for pay equity. We have been devoting our advocacy efforts
for the past several years to the passage of the following
bills:
**All
bill numbers are for Legislative year 2003**
S2492
Balboni, A3998 DiNapoli
A bill to amend §296, Executive Law, making it a discriminatory
practice to compensate employees of different sexes differently
for work that is of comparable worth.
A6237
Stringer (Note–No Senate sponsor)
A bill to add §153, Civil Service Law, making it a discriminatory
practice for public employers to compensate employees of different
sexes differently for work that is of comparable worth.
S848
Balboni, A148 Christensen
A bill to amend §297, Executive Law, (Human Rights provisions)
to direct the NYS Division of Human Rights to establish rules
that permit complaints alleging unlawful discriminatory practices
to be filed as class actions.
A6252
Nolan (Note-No Senate Sponsor)
A bill to amend §194, Labor Law, that affects employers
in the private sector. Bars the discriminatory practice of
compensating employees of different sexes differently for
work that is of comparable worth; Provides three years for
compliance and protects collective bargaining agreements.
S4568
Velella, A6701 John
The New York Fair Pay Act: Amends the Labor Law to provide
that it shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer
to discriminate between employees on the basis of sex, race
and/or national origin by paying different wages.
S2074
Stavisky, A4583 Carrozza
Implements 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.
The
Facts
Women, on average, earn 73% of what men earn. In other words
it takes women almost seven working days to earn what a man
earns in five working days. For women of color, the wage gap
is even worse. African-American women make 65% of white men’s
earnings and Latinas make only 52%.
National Equal Pay Day Tuesday April 15, 2003 marked the date
by which female workers finally earned what men had earned
in the12 months of the year 2002.
Current
Equal Pay Law applies only to jobs with the same title, so
thousands of NYS women who work in female-dominated occupations
- clerks, secretaries, health aides, pre-school teachers,
and dental assistants among others - are underpaid and undervalued.
Pay Equity is an effort to remedy the equal pay law by requiring
employers to compensate women with equal pay for work of comparable
worth in skills, effort, responsibilities and education.
Contact
our Lawmakers:
Governor George E. Pataki Executive Chambers, Albany, NY 12224
Phone: 518-474-8390 Fax: 518-474-1513
Joseph Bruno, Senate Majority Leader, Room 909 LOB, Albany,
12247
Phone: 518-455-3191 Fax: 518-455-2448
Chairs of Senate Committees:
- Bill S2074 Stavisky: Senate Civil Service & Pensions
Committee Chair Vincent Leibell leibell@senate.state.ny.us
Room 802 LOB Albany, NY 12247
-Bill S4568 Velella: Senate Labor Committee Chair Guy Velella
velella@senate.state.ny.us
Room 501 LOB Albany, NY 12247
-Bill S2492 Balboni & S848 Balboni: Senate Investigations,
Taxation, Government Operations Committee Chair Nicholas Spano
spano@senate.state.ny.us Room 509 LOB Albany, NY 12247
June 2003
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