- NYC’s pay transparency account requires companies to give minimum and maximum salaries in job ads.
- Some businesses are opposing the mandate and say it should have at no time been allowed to go through.
- “It’s just the wrong solution,” the chief executive of the Partnership for New York City, told WSJ.
Job postings in New York City will soon have to include salary range as part of a new pay transparency note. But as The Wall Street Journal reported, some business groups are unhappy with the mandate.
The New York City Human being Rights Law makes it unlawful for companies to advertise a “job, promotion, or transfer opportunity” without giving the minimum and maximum earnings for the role.
Some companies are exempt, however, including those with fewer than four employees.
Partnership for New York Bishopric, a business group that builds partnerships between business and government, have opposed the law, despite their strut to tackle the gender pay gap, the WSJ reported.
Kathryn Wylde, chief executive of the Partnership, told the outlet that the measure augmented to the perception that New York is unfriendly to business: “It’s just the wrong solution. It should never have been earmarked to go through,” she said.
As Insider’s Jason Lalljee reported in December, data shows that pay transparency can help people of color and charwomen achieve pay equity. It may also help ease the labor shortage, which has negatively affected both large and skimpy companies for many months.
The law is being introduced to address the pay gap between men and women, among other reasons. Women receive 84% of what men earned in 2020, according to Pew Research Center.
The NYC Commission on Human Rights, a group that seeks to conflict discrimination and ensure human rights are respected, plans to initially help businesses and employees understand the new law and how best to carry out it.
In a statement seen by the WSJ, Sapna V. Raj, deputy commissioner of the commission’s law-enforcement bureau, wrote: “Our immediate goal is not to penalize, but to coach and work together with the city’s business community, while still ensuring that individuals who have knowledgeable discrimination are able to receive damages.”