CA AB2335

Expands the State Civil Service Act's purpose to include maintaining compensation relationships between state civil service positions with comparable duties and responsibilities.

Requires state agencies' equal employment opportunity plans to identify areas of both significant underutilization and overutilization of specific groups based on race, ethnicity, and gender.

Authorizes the Department of Human Resources to make salary adjustments exceeding existing appropriations if necessary to maintain or restore historical equitable salary relationships between comparable classifications.

Requires salary adjustments made to restore equitable relationships to be retroactive to the date of application.

Requires the Department of Human Resources to consider origins and history of work (including how wages were set), social and cultural factors, and systemic undervaluation when determining if compensation inequities exist between bargaining units.

Expands pay equity reports to include findings on salaries within state civil service, private business, and other public employment, separated by rank-and-file and supervisory/managerial classifications.

Requires the Department to evaluate all civil service classifications for gender and ethnicity pay equity where there is underrepresentation or overrepresentation of women and minorities, and to negotiate salary adjustments to close identified gaps.