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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6712
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 11, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ROSENTHAL, JOHN, JAFFEE, ESPAILLAT, ROBINSON,
          PAULIN, CARROZZA, SCHIMEL, WRIGHT, GOTTFRIED, ALFANO, GORDON,  GABRYS-
          ZAK, GALEF, BOYLAND, LIFTON, LANCMAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          BARRA, BRENNAN, CHRISTENSEN, COLTON, COOK, DESTITO, DINOWITZ, FARRELL,
          GLICK, HEASTIE, JACOBS, KOON, LUPARDO, MAISEL, McENENY, MENG, MILLMAN,

          O'DONNELL,  PHEFFER,  N. RIVERA,  SPANO, WEINSTEIN, WEISENBERG -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
 
        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in  relation  to  implementing  a
          state  policy  of  setting  salaries  on the basis of comparability of
          value of the work
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section 115 of the civil service law, as added by chapter
     2  790 of the laws of 1958, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 115.  Policy of the state. It is the policy of  New  York  state  to
     4  comply  with  the  letter  and  spirit  of the federal "Equal Pay Act of
     5  1963," Pub. L. 88-38 (29 U.S.C. § 206) which requires that employees  of

     6  both  sexes  receive equal pay for equal work, the federal "Civil Rights
     7  Act of 1964," Pub. L.   88-352 (42 U.S.C.  §  2000e-2)  which  prohibits
     8  discrimination  on  the  basis  of sex, race, and national origin in all
     9  terms of employment, article fifteen of the executive  law  and  section
    10  forty-c  of  the  civil rights law, which prohibit discrimination on the
    11  basis of sex, race or  national  origin  in  all  terms  of  employment.
    12  Consistent  with  these  laws, it is the policy of the state to ensure a
    13  fair, non-biased wage structure for its employees in which sex, race, or
    14  national origin is not a consideration either directly or indirectly  in
    15  determining the proper compensation for a title in state service, nor in

    16  determining  the pay for any individual or group of employees.  In order
    17  to attract unusual merit and ability to the service of the state of  New
    18  York,  to  stimulate  higher  efficiency among the personnel, to provide
    19  skilled leadership in administrative departments, to reward merit and to
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  insure to the people and the taxpayers of the  state  of  New  York  the
     2  highest  return in services for the necessary costs of government, it is
     3  [hereby declared to be] the policy of the state to provide equal pay for

     4  [equal]  similar  work  and  for  work  of comparable value, and regular
     5  increases in pay in proper proportion to increase of  ability,  increase
     6  of output and increase of quality of work demonstrated in service.
     7    §  2.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision  1  of section 118 of the civil
     8  service law, as added by chapter 790 of the laws of 1958, is amended  to
     9  read as follows:
    10    (c)  The principle of fair and equal pay for similar work and for work
    11  of comparable value shall be followed in the classification and  reclas-
    12  sification  and the allocation and reallocation of positions pursuant to
    13  this article and all positions having the same title shall be  allocated
    14  to  the  same  salary  grade.  Comparable  value  shall be determined by

    15  comparing job titles on the basis of standards which include the compos-
    16  ite of such basic elements of a job as the knowledge,  skills,  account-
    17  ability, mental or physical stress and effort, extraordinary dangers and
    18  responsibilities  normally  required  to satisfactorily perform the job.
    19  The principle of fair  and  equal  pay  for  work  of  comparable  value
    20  requires  that  consideration  of sex, race or national origin shall not
    21  influence directly or indirectly the establishment of salaries.
    22    § 3. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section  119  to
    23  read as follows:
    24    §  119. Comparability of value of work; segregated job titles reviewed
    25  and adjusted. 1. The legislature finds that despite the  policy  of  New

    26  York  state  as declared in section one hundred fifteen of this article,
    27  job titles which are segregated by sex, race,  or  national  origin  may
    28  have  been undervalued and assigned wages which do not reflect the rela-
    29  tive worth of the job. It is the intent of  the  legislature  to  remedy
    30  such undervaluation and to correct such disparities.
    31    2.  For purposes of this section segregated titles (X) means titles or
    32  any class of titles in which the number of incumbents of a sex, race  or
    33  national  origin  is greater than the sum of the percentage of that sex,
    34  race or national origin in the state service (P) plus twenty percent  of
    35  that  percentage  (.2(P)).  This  is represented by the formula (X = P +
    36  .2(P)).

    37    3. The president of the commission shall, by  January  first  of  each
    38  year,  submit  to  the legislature and the governor's office of employee
    39  relations,   a   list   showing,   by   negotiating   unit    and    for
    40  management/confidential  employees,  those segregated titles for which a
    41  disparity exists based on the comparability of the value  of  the  work.
    42  Such  president  shall  also  submit  to the legislature, the governor's
    43  office of employee relations and the division of the budget  along  with
    44  the  list,  an  estimate  of the appropriation necessary to correct such
    45  disparities.
    46    4. Beginning with the budget  requests  for  the  second  fiscal  year
    47  commencing  after the effective date of this section, the governor shall

    48  include the appropriation necessary to ensure that salaries are  set  in
    49  accordance  with subdivision one of this section and section one hundred
    50  fifteen, and paragraph (c) of subdivision one  of  section  one  hundred
    51  eighteen of this article.
    52    5. No salary shall be reduced to achieve comparable compensation under
    53  the provisions of this section.
    54    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.