RyeCity REVIEW THE
April 13, 2018 | Vol. 6, Number 15 | www.ryecityreview.com
BOL bans asking about prior salary
It’s good to be a nun Zuri Washington as Deloris Van Cartier, center, and The Sisters perform onstage in the Westchester Broadway Theatre’s production of “Sister Act,” now on show through July 1. For more, see page 6. Photo/John Vecchiolla
Rye man stabbed during domestic incident An unidentified Rye man was stabbed last week during a domestic altercation, leaving him to undergo emergency surgery. According to police, the 27-year-old man was stabbed by his 25-year-old brother around 8:50 p.m. on April 5 at a clergyman’s home on Boston Post Road. As of press time, the suspect has not been named but has been charged with second-degree assault, a felony; and menacing, a misdemeanor. Public Safety Commissioner Michael Corcoran told the Review that since the stabbing is classified as a domestic violence incident, the department is not required to and will not release the
names of the individuals involved in the case. The incident occurred near 900 Boston Post Road, where the suspect allegedly grabbed a 13-inch butcher knife and stabbed the victim, who chased after his brother when he fled to the clergyman’s home. According to Rye City Manager Marcus Serrano, the victim underwent surgery the night of the incident at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla and is now in stable condition. “This was a domestic incident between two brothers so it wasn’t a random act, but it’s certainly a terrible thing that happened,” he said. The victim suffered injuries
On April 5, a Rye man was stabbed by his brother at a home on Boston Post Road. The 27-year-old victim is currently in stable condition after undergoing emergency surgery at the Westchester Medical Center. File photo
to his lungs in the stabbing. Corcoran said the case is still
under investigation. -Reporting by Franco Fino
Westchester County lawmakers look to close in on wage discrimination with a new law banning employers from asking about prior salary history. File photo
A new bill passed by the Westchester County Board of Legislators this week will make it illegal for employers to inquire about applicants’ previous pay during the hiring process. The Anti-Wage Discrimination Act, which was passed unanimously by lawmakers on April 10, will go before County Executive George Latimer, a Democrat, who was expected to sign it into law on Tuesday afternoon. “This is a crucial step in combatting women’s pay inequality, but it also removes a barrier of discrimination—whether intentional or unintentional—that will help all job seekers, including older workers or workers who are making career transitions, or those returning to work after raising children, and it will do so at no cost to businesses,” Board of Legislators Chairman Ben Boykin, a Democrat, said in a statement. Lawmakers hope that barring employers from asking about prior salary history will translate into higher wages for employees and greater upward mobility for
lower wage workers transitioning into new roles. Among the prospective benefactors, according to the board, will be women workers who often earn a lower salary than their male counterparts. According to a recently released Pew Research analysis, women earned just 82 percent of what men earned annually nationally in 2017, marking a continued 15-year stasis in the gender pay disparity. An additional study by employer review and job search site Glassdoor from 2016 also shows that the pay gap is compounded by a disparity in successful salary negotiations between men and women. According to the study, men were more than three times more likely to successfully negotiate a pay raise. The bill, which will go into effect three months after being signed into law, is based off of a piece of New York state legislation that never made it out of the Legislature after the Senate failed to bring it to a vote. -Reporting by James Pero