At the time of its passage, the equal pay law was largely heralded as a major step towards curbing insidious pay gaps. But advocates now fear that recently proposed changes could create loopholes to the point of defanging it completely.
The changes also proposed excluding businesses with fewer than 15 employees, up from four that the current law carves out. The bill also proposed pushing back the law’s implementation until November.
The bill currently allows employers to post “general notices” that they’re hiring instead of specific positions, and they don’t need to list pay ranges for them.“It’s another example of people who have [resources] not being sensitive to workers,” she said. Brannan, who was a co-sponsor of the original 2018 bill, along with current City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, disputed the characterization that lawmakers are walking back the reforms.
"I can assure you nobody is trying to ‘roll back’ our own hard-fought pay equity legislation,” he said.One City Council spokesperson pointed to the rapid timeline that the bill made it through the legislative body last December. While former Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal first introduced the bill in 2018, it idled without any type of public hearing until December 2nd of 2021, less than two weeks before it passed.
Asked about the proposed changes, Council spokesperson Breeana Mulligan pointed to Tuesday’s public hearing.The appropriate committees will hear from all stakeholders about how the salary transparency law can be most effectively implemented to address salary inequities for women and people of color,” she said.from the National Women’s Law Center. The wage gap for Black and Latina women is even wider, with Black women earning $.64 and Latina women earning $.56, compared to white men.
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