Prior Salary Can’t Justify Gender Wage Gap, En Banc Ninth Circuit Says

"To hold otherwise–to allow employers to capitalize on the persistence of the wage gap and perpetuate that gap ad infinitum–would be contrary to the text and history of the Equal Pay Act," Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote for the majority.

By Erin Mulvaney

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