San Fransicko Court: Women can't be paid less than men based on past wages

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/court-women-cant-paid-less-180649702.html

 

 

 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Employers cannot pay women less than men for the same work based on differences in their salaries at previous jobs, a federal appeals court said Monday.

Pay differences based on prior salaries are discriminatory under the federal Equal Pay Act, a unanimous 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.

The decision overturned a ruling last year by a smaller panel of 9th Circuit judges that had been criticized by equal pay advocates.

Allowing pay differences based on previous salaries would perpetuate wage gaps between men and women that are based on discrimination in the job market, Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote.

Reinhardt — considered among the most liberal members of the 9th Circuit — wrote the opinion before he died last month.

"Although the (Equal Pay) Act has prohibited sex-based wage discrimination for more than fifty years, the financial exploitation of working women embodied by the gender pay gap continues to be an embarrassing reality of our economy," Reinhardt wrote.

Women made about 80 cents for every dollar men earned in 2015, according to U.S. government data.

The ruling came in a lawsuit by California school employee Aileen Rizo, who learned in 2012 while having lunch with her colleagues that male counterparts hired after her were making more money.

Fresno County public schools hired Rizo as a math consultant in 2009 for a little under $63,000 a year. The county had a standard policy that added 5 percent to her previous pay as a middle school math teacher in Arizona.

An email to an attorney for the district's superintendent was not immediately returned.

The Equal Pay Act, signed into law by President John F. Kennedy in 1963, forbids employers from paying women less than men based on gender for equal work performed under similar working conditions. But it creates exemptions when pay is based on seniority, merit, quantity or quality of work or "any other factor other than sex."

Fresno County argued that basing starting salaries primarily on previous pay was one of those other factors and prevented subjective determinations of a new employee's value.

The 5 percent bump encourages candidates to leave their positions to work for the county, it said.

 

 

 

Leave it to those weirdos

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/court-women-cant-paid-less-180649702.html

 

 

 

Leave it to those weirdos

 

There we go with that "80 cents for every dollar" lying bullshit again.

[jerryskids 5,206]

I'm not really sure what to make of this. As per the OP:

 

 

The county had a standard policy that added 5 percent to her previous pay as a middle school math teacher in Arizona.

 

 

So the 9th Circus decides they need to abolish this policy and... what?

[kilroy69 994]

Fortunately. Trump will have stocked the court with conservatives soon and the 9th can't control the country anymore.

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But it creates exemptions when pay is based on seniority, merit, quantity or quality of work or "any other factor other than sex."

Lawsuit should have been laughed out of court.

[RaiderHaters Revenge 3,584]

only in California, home of the false narratives. I am really surprised "hands up don't shoot" didn't start here

[DankNuggs 305]

why do the stories always seem to be about the new guy who gets paid more than the women whos been at the job for years?

 

 

Maybe its like the NFL and the latest contract is always the biggest?

 

If they were hired at the exact same time for the exact same position I get the argument. But comparing apples to oranges to justify a stance is intellectually dishonest

[RaiderHaters Revenge 3,584]

why do the stories always seem to be about the new guy who gets paid more than the women whos been at the job for years?

 

 

Maybe its like the NFL and the latest contract is always the biggest?

 

If they were hired at the exact same time for the exact same position I get the argument. But comparing apples to oranges to justify a stance is intellectually dishonest

 

there is not a single job where race is the determining factor about pay in this nation. Unless of course you are a woman, then you get paid more just because