Court Ruling Progress in Fight Against Financial Exploitation of Women
Dr. David Adler · April 30, 2018
Working women in Idaho, within hours of the celebration of Equal Pay Day in 2018, received a much deserved and much-needed boost this week when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that employers may not use a woman's salary history to rationalize paying her less than a man performing the same job. The 11-judge panel rightly ruled that the act of calculating a woman's wages based on her salary history is a form of gender discrimination and a violation of the 1963 Equal Pay Act, which prohibits businesses from paying women less than men earn for doing the same work.
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