PAID FEMALE POST-ACUTE CARE COORDINATORS LESS THAN MALE COUNTERPARTS
Inova Home Health, LLC and Alternate Solutions Health Network recently agreed to settle a pay discrimination lawsuit which had been filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), for $105,000 together with injunctive relief.
Apparently, notwithstanding their employees’ experience and senior status, these companies paid female post-acute care coordinators (PACCs) less than their “newly-hired male counterparts.”
Because such conduct was believed to be violative of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the EEOC filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (EEOC v. Inova Home Health, LLC et al., Case No. 1:23-cv-00264). In addition to the monetary settlement, the companies have agreed to end any pay disparities, will issue notices to their employees about their rights, and will the increase the pay of all impacted individuals to “correspond with their male counterparts.”
In a written statement, EEOC Washington Field Office District Director Mindy Weinstein noted, “Pay disparities persist in many workplaces …. Employers should be proactively assessing their own compensation systems, identifying any disparities between employees of the opposite sex who perform the same work, and determining whether real, job-related factors actually explain the disparity.”
Bet that wasn’t the solution Alternate Solutions was hoping for ….
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