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A 3160: Relates to issuing a certificate of compliance to any employer who achieves a gender pay gap of 10% or less.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified April 24, 2026

What A 3160 does, verified April 24, 2026

The proposed law aims to promote gender pay equity in the state of New York. An employer who achieves a wage differential of 10 percent or less between women and men in the same jobs or dissimilar jobs with equivalent skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions will be eligible for a certificate of compliance. This certificate must be displayed publicly on the department's website and may also be posted publicly by the employer. The law will take effect 90 days after it becomes a law.

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Last action: referred to labor (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026referred to labor
Jan. 23, 2025referred to labor
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 23, 2025 · 224 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3160 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to issuing certificates of compliance to any employer who achieves a gender pay gap of 10 percent or less The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 194 of the labor law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 5 to read as follows: 3 5. Any employer in either the private or public sector that achieves 4 wage differentials of ten percent or less between women and men in the 5 same jobs and in jobs that are dissimilar but that require equivalent 6 composites of skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions, 7 shall receive a certificate of compliance from the department which 8 shall be displayed publicly on the department's website and may also be 9 posted publicly by the employer. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 11 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05611-01-5 
Text of A 3160 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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