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Employers legally allowed to pay women less than men for same work, US federal court rules
A US federal appeals court has ruled that employers are legally allowed to pay women lower salaries than men for doing the same work, based on differences in the workers' salaries in previous jobs. According to the Associated Press, the decision by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a previous lower-court ruling, according to which pay differences based only on prior salaries were discriminatory under the country’s Equal Pay Act.
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Basically, it appears the ruling keeps with the Equal pay act by saying that a variety of factors are allowed to be used in determining pay if there is a history of it. In this case asking for past wages to determine the wage you're going to earn at the new job.
I still hold to the belief that the only way to get the equal pay so many are looking for is to require businesses to go to a tiered pay scale. In the military they use or used grades of pay, my local Government has tiered pay, T1 is entry and usually low and it goes up to like T9 for the city management. Each job is assigned a Tier number based on requirements, what you do and then you get a pay set by the city for that tier.