Schools’ Use of Salary History in Setting Pay to Get Second Look

Whether the Fresno County, Calif., school system violates a gender pay equity law by using salary history in setting pay for its workers will get another look by a federal appeals court (Rizo v. Yovino, 2017 BL 303715, 9th Cir., No. 16-15372, en banc review granted 8/29/17).

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will review whether the school system is correct that its consideration of a worker’s salary history when setting initial pay is lawful, Judge Sidney Thomas wrote in an Aug. 29 order.

A three-judge panel in April ruled that the county may be ...