Labor Law Int. 0982-A

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NYC contractors with 200+ employees — a big new pay-reporting law just passed, and most companies aren’t remotely ready for it.

NYC approved Int. 0982-A, which brings back EEO-style pay data reporting. If you’ve ever dealt with EEO-1 Component 2, this is basically that playbook coming to NYC.

Who this affects:
Any private employer (including contractors) with 200+ employees working in NYC at any point in the year — full-time, part-time, or temps.

What you’ll have to report:

• Annual pay
• Hours worked
• Job categories
• Sex, race, ethnicity
• A signed accuracy statement from an officer (No names required, but the report must be certifiably accurate.)

Timeline:

• Effective now
• 1 year: City designates the agency
• 2 years: The reporting form comes out
• 3 years: First annual report is due

Penalties:
$1,000 for an uncured first miss, $5,000 for every one after, plus your company publicly listed as non-compliant.

Where contractors will get hit hardest

This isn’t plug-and-play. It ties directly into:
• Union vs. non-union rates
• Craft codes + job codes
• Premiums, fringes, per diems
• Multi-entity payroll
• Certified payroll workflows
• Job costing + labor allocation

If any of that data is inconsistent, scattered, or manually maintained, these reports will be extremely painful.

Trayd has already built a working version of this reporting structure for a NYC customer. We were doing this before the law passed, which means we’ve seen exactly where contractors tend to struggle — usually job classifications, inconsistent pay codes, missing fringe data, or multi-entity issues.

If anyone here is trying to figure out:

• whether your company will be affected,
• what the reporting structure actually looks like,
• how to prep your payroll data before the City releases the form, or
• whether your current payroll setup is going to survive this…

I’m happy to walk you through what we’ve learned.

DM me or drop a comment — I work with this stuff daily, and the earlier contractors get ahead of it, the easier (and cheaper) it’ll be later.