AstraZeneca to Face Nationwide Collective in Female Reps’ Suit

Former female members of AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP‘s salesforce were granted by a federal court conditional certification of a nationwide collective asserting that the drugmaking giant pays its male employees more than its female ones.

The suing women, who worked for AstraZeneca for at least 20 years, alleged that all the company’s sales representatives hold the same core job duties regardless of specialty, title, position, or territory. In their complaint, they also said that throughout their employment the company applied to them a Career Ladder that set out success factors to be “used consistently across the country to develop and ...