Bill Text: NY A09020 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the workforce guidance and information for women policy; requires the department of labor to provide guidance to local workforce investment boards and staff, to improve services and training for both women and men to qualify for higher paying jobs and careers; provides that such guidance shall promote program services for both women and men job seekers that provide: (a) current information about compensation for jobs and careers that offer high earning potential including jobs that traditionally employ predominantly men; (b) services such as counseling and skills development and training that encourage both women and men to seek employment in such jobs; and (c) referrals to employers offering such jobs.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-5)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-01 - signed chap.284 [A09020 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09020-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9020
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 13, 2012
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. JAFFEE, PERRY, GIBSON, CASTRO, RA, SCARBOROUGH,
         ORTIZ, LIFTON, P. RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  ABINANTI,
         COLTON,  CROUCH,  LANCMAN, MARKEY, McENENY, NOLAN, TITONE -- read once
         and referred to the Committee on Labor
       AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  workforce  training  for
         women
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Legislative intent. The legislature finds that  women  are
    2  increasingly  responsible  for  the  economic security of their families
    3  although more than a quarter of women-headed households in New York live
    4  below the poverty level. Working women earn 80% of  what  men  earn  and
    5  jobs  traditionally  held  by  women  pay  significantly  less than jobs
    6  predominantly employing men. Workforce training programs have the poten-
    7  tial to narrow the wage gap through training for, and referral to,  jobs
    8  that  have  higher earning potential. Many higher paying jobs are tradi-
    9  tionally dominated by men but could provide opportunities for women.  It
   10  is  the  goal of the legislature that workforce training programs in New
   11  York assist women job seekers with information and  services  that  will
   12  help  increase  their earnings by encouraging them to seek higher paying
   13  jobs and careers.
   14    S 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 10-c to read  as
   15  follows:
   16    S  10-C.  WORKFORCE  TRAINING  FOR  WOMEN POLICY. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL
   17  PROVIDE GUIDANCE AND ASSISTANCE TO STATE AND  LOCAL  WORKFORCE  TRAINING
   18  BOARDS, PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS AND STAFF, AND PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERS TO
   19  IMPROVE  SERVICES  AND  TRAINING  FOR WOMEN TO QUALIFY FOR HIGHER PAYING
   20  JOBS AND CAREERS. SUCH GUIDANCE AND  ASSISTANCE  SHALL  PROMOTE  PROGRAM
   21  SERVICES FOR WOMEN JOB SEEKERS THAT PROVIDE:
   22    (A)  CURRENT  INFORMATION ABOUT COMPENSATION FOR JOBS AND CAREERS THAT
   23  OFFER HIGH EARNING POTENTIAL INCLUDING JOBS  THAT  TRADITIONALLY  EMPLOY
   24  PREDOMINANTLY MEN;
   25    (B)  SERVICES  SUCH  AS COUNSELING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING
   26  THAT ENCOURAGE WOMEN TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT IN SUCH JOBS; AND
   27    (C) REFERRALS TO EMPLOYERS OFFERING SUCH JOBS.
   28    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13679-01-1