9th Circuit Rules Salary History Cannot Justify Unequal Pay

Ninth Circuit Rules that Prior Salary Cannot Justify Wage Differential

Employers cannot avoid liability under the Equal Pay Act (EPA) for established pay gaps between men and women by relying upon salary history to prove the ...

9th Circuit Says Prior Salary Cannot Justify Pay Disparities Under ...

The 9th Circuit has ruled that prior salary history cannot be any factor in a defense to a claim of pay discrimination under the Equal ...

Ninth Circuit Confirms That Salary History May Not Be Used to ...

Ninth Circuit Confirms That Salary History May Not Be Used to Justify Unequal Pay (US) ... The opinion reaffirms the Ninth Circuit's ...

Employers can't use salary history to justify lower pay for women, full ...

The Equal Pay Act does not permit paying lower salaries to women based on their pay histories, according to the en banc 9th U.S. Circuit Court ...

Salary History Cannot Be Used to Justify Pay Differentials

Just as it did in 2018, the Ninth Circuit disagreed with the county's position, holding that prior salary alone or in combination with other ...

U.S. Supreme Court Lets Stand Ninth Circuit Ban on 'Salary History ...

In so ruling, the Court concluded that “[t]he equal-pay-for-equal-work mandate would mean little if employers were free to justify paying an ...

Ninth Circuit Reiterates That Salary History Does Not Justify Pay ...

Second Verse, Same as the First: Ninth Circuit Reiterates That Salary History Does Not Justify Pay Differences Under the Equal Pay Act · On ...

What Is Past Is Prologue: The Ninth Circuit Again Rules That Prior ...

Yovino, holding the prior salary cannot be used as a “factor other than sex” to justify pay differences under the federal Equal Pay Act. The ...

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Finds Use of Salary History To “Justify ...

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Finds Use of Salary History To “Justify” Unequal Pay Rates Violates Federal Pay Discrimination Law (US). By ...

Ninth Circuit Ruling on Equal Pay: Salary History Cannot Justify ...

Ninth Circuit Ruling on Equal Pay: Salary History Cannot Justify Wage Disparities Between Men and Women ... By: Eric J. Wu, Esq. ... In a unanimous ...

High Court Declines to Resolve Circuit Split on Whether Prior Salary ...

On July 2, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the Ninth Circuit's decision in Rizo v. Yovino.1 The federal Equal Pay Act (EPA)2 ...

Salary History Cannot Justify Unequal Pay Between Men and ...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that an employer cannot justify a pay difference between male and female employees ...

Salary History is Not a Permitted 'Factor Other Than Sex' under ...

Prior salary alone or in combination with other factors cannot justify a wage differential between male and female employees under the Equal ...

Salary History Not a Defense to Equal Pay Act Claims, 9th Circuit Says

Read how the 9th Circuit's decision in Rizo v. Yovino says that using salary history to set compensation is in violation of the Equal Pay ...

Ninth Circuit Rules that Salary History Cannot Justify Pay Disparities

The Court ruled that allowing employers to rely on prior salaries is incompatible with the broad principle of the Equal Pay Act, which states ...

Appeals Court Says Salary History Can't Block Equal Pay Act Claims

the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today became the latest federal court of appeals to rule that employers cannot justify a wage differential ...

Labor and Employment Alert: Ninth Circuit Holds That Prior Salary ...

Labor and Employment Alert: Ninth Circuit Holds That Prior Salary Cannot Justify Unequal Pay. On April 9, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of ...

Ninth Circuit Rules That Prior Salary Cannot Justify Gender Pay ...

The Equal Pay Act (“EPA”) was enacted in 1963 to address wage disparities based on sex. To establish a claim under the EPA, an employee must show that her ...

Ninth Circuit Holds Prior Salary Cannot Justify Wage Differences

Prior Ninth Circuit precedent held that “the Equal Pay Act does not impose a strict prohibition against the use of prior salary.” Kouba v.

Ninth Circuit Rules That Employer's Use of Salary History Does Not ...

The female consultant alleged that her lesser pay violated the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which provides that male and female employees must receive ...