Adelphi University Settles Wage-Based Gender Discrimination Case
In a suit initiated by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a female education professor and attorney who still teaches at Adelphi University, the university has agreed to pay in excess of $300,000, in addition to other remedial measures, to settle a pay discrimination case brought in 2007.
According to a recent article in The Garden City News, the terms of the consent decree, which settled the suit, calls for Adelphi University to pay slightly more than $300,000 to 37 claimants, increasing the salaries for 30 of the claimants, as well as, in an effort to avoid future pay discrimination at the school, providing monitoring and training for faculty and staff members on anti-discrimination laws. In addition to the salary increases that many of the female claimants will be receiving, they will also receive back pay in compensation for the lower salaries as compared to their male counterparts.
Pay discrimination cases are offspring of gender discrimination cases in which female employees are compensated at lower levels for performing the same functions and having an equal to or greater rank with male employees at the same institution or company. Pay discrimination represents a violation of both the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
