An Old-School Approach To Equal Pay At 9th Circ.

By James McDonald Jr. (May 26, 2017, 12:27 PM EDT) -- The Ninth Circuit issued a decision in late April holding that an employer does not violate the federal Equal Pay Act by paying men and women differently for the same work where their starting pay was determined by their salaries in their previous jobs. The court applied a decades-old precedent in reaching its decision, one that is likely to have little impact on private sector employers in California but that might be helpful to employers elsewhere in the circuit....

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