Int. No. 982
By Council Member Williams
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to amending the pay equity law to require agencies to report the geographic distribution of work performed by city employees
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 12-208 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 29 for the year 2023, is amended to read as follows:
§ 12-208 Pay and employment equity data. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
Agency. The term “agency” means any agency, office, department, division, or bureau, the head of which holds office upon appointment of the mayor and those units within the executive office of the mayor designated by the mayor to be covered by the provisions of chapter 16 of the charter. Such term does not include agencies headed by boards, commissions, or other multi-member bodies, whether appointed by the mayor or otherwise, nor [to] elected officials, nor [to] other agencies the heads of which are appointed by officials other than the mayor or by multi-member bodies.
Geographic location. The term “geographic location” means a spatial location as designated by longitude and latitude, or by street address with borough, block, and lot number.
b. No later than November 30, 2019, and on or before November 30 annually thereafter, each agency, to the extent the department of citywide administrative services does not already have such information, shall provide to the department of citywide administrative services information relevant to pay and employment equity. Such information for each current and former employee within such agency, shall be as of the date of hire and shall, to the extent such information is available, include the data [set forth] specified in paragraphs 1 through [30] 33 of this subdivision. Such data shall include a unique identifier for each employee, other than with respect to employee benefits. Each such identifier shall be identical for each such employee across all data sets starting with the first data set provided to the council in 2024.
1. Agency;
2. Start date;
3. Start date in current civil service title;
4. Civil service title;
5. Whether the civil service title is a promotional title;
6. Union status per civil service title, including, where applicable, name of the union and job or title category of the bargaining unit;
7. Whether the civil service title is a uniformed position;
8. Salary range for such title;
9. Business title;
10. Title classification (title description);
11. Job category;
12. Career level;
13. Base salary;
14. The department of citywide administrative services occupational group code and group name;
15. Whether such employee is a managerial or supervisory employee;
16. Minimum number of years of work experience required for such position;
17. Number of years of work experience of such employee;
18. Highest level of education attained by such employee;
19. Gender;
20. Racial group;
21. Ethnicity;
22. Date of birth;
23. Whether such employee is a provisional employee;
24. Whether such employee is full-time, part-time or seasonal;
25. Change in personnel status, including but not limited to, appointed, deceased, decrease, demoted, dismissed, increase, promoted, resigned, retired, terminated and transfer;
26. Whether such employee was previously employed by the city of New York;
27. Total amount of leave taken;
28. Total amount of overtime pay per employee, where applicable;
29. Estimated amount of annual employee benefits paid per civil service titles; [and]
30. The three geographic locations where such employee spent the greatest number of work hours, excluding telework, except as provided by subdivision d of this section;
31. The number of hours worked at each location listed in response to the requirement of paragraph 30;
32. The total number of hours worked; and
33. All data sets made available in all prior years pursuant to this section, except that the unique identifier required by this subdivision [b] shall only be required for data sets provided for 2024 and thereafter.
c. The data collected pursuant to subdivision b shall include pedagogues of the department of education. Such data may be provided in the format in which it is retained by the department of education.
d. Notwithstanding the requirements of paragraphs 30, 31 and 32 of subdivision b, no agency shall disclose an employee’s geographic location if such disclosure would violate a provision of local, state, or federal law. If an agency determines that disclosure of a location would reveal an individual’s residential address, it may satisfy the requirement of paragraph 30 of subdivision b by reporting the census block corresponding to that location.
e. No agency shall require an employee to be tracked using geospatial technology for the purpose of complying with any provision of this section.
f. No later than 90 days following receipt of the data collected pursuant to subdivision b of this section, the department of citywide administrative services shall provide such data to the office of data analytics.
[e.] g. All agencies shall cooperate with the department of citywide administrative services as may be necessary and proper to ensure compliance with this subdivision. The department of citywide administrative services may request from any agency, including the office of payroll administration and financial information services agency, information it deems necessary to enable it to properly carry out its functions.
[f.] h. The commissioner of citywide administrative services may promulgate such rules as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.
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