File #: Int 1064-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring transparency concerning promotional opportunities.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Civil and Human Rights
On agenda: 9/26/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring transparency concerning promotional opportunities
Sponsors: Nantasha M. Williams, Amanda Farías
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require employers to make reasonable efforts to notify their current employees of job opportunities prior to selecting a candidate for the role. This bill would also require employers to provide current employees with information about the selected candidate, so that current employees can prepare for similar opportunities in the future. This bill would only apply to employers with more than 100 employees.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1064, 2. Int. No. 1064, 3. September 26, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-26-24

Int. No. 1064

 

By Council Members Williams and Farías

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring transparency concerning promotional opportunities

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 8-102 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new definition of “job opportunity” in alphabetical order to read as follows:

Job opportunity. The term “job opportunity” means current or anticipated vacancy for which the employer is considering a candidate or candidates or interviewing a candidate or candidates or that the employer externally posts.

§ 2. Section 8-107 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision 33 to read as follows:

33. Employment; transparency in employment opportunity.

(a) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to fail to make reasonable efforts to make a job opportunity known to all employees on the same calendar day and prior to the date on which the employer makes a selection decision.

(b) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to select a candidate to fill a job opportunity without making reasonable efforts to announce, post or otherwise make known the following information to, at a minimum, the employees with whom the employer intends the selected candidate to work with regularly, within thirty calendar days after such candidate begins working in the position:

(1) The name of the candidate selected for the job opportunity;

(2) The selected candidate’s former job title if selected while already employed by the employer;

(3) The selected candidate’s new job title; and

(4) Information on how employees may demonstrate interest in similar job opportunities in the future. 

(c) The provisions of this subdivision shall only apply to employers with more than 100 employees.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

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LS #15465

9/2/24