Mayor Eric Adams signed several bills into law on Tuesday aimed at fixing pay disparities in the city’s municipal workforce.
The pay equity bills would require city agencies to analyze compensation data and efforts to bridge pay disparities annually, the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) to set up a three-year review of several city worker positions and DCAS to assess its own work to hire a diverse pool of applicants. Plus, they would amend the city’s Pay Equity Law by mandating DCAS provide more data to the City Council, so it can more effectively tackle pay disparities across the city’s vast bureaucracy.
