Three female employees of the City of San Antonio, Texas have filed a federal lawsuit alleging pay discrimination.<\/p>\n
Christine Peden and Jeanne Martinez, employees of the City’s Animal Care Services, discovered they were being paid less than male coworkers with the same job title of operations managers. They filed a federal lawsuit, which was joined by Brenda Werts, then an employee of the Capital Improvements Management Services department. The lawsuit alleges violation of the federal Equal Pay Act and pay discrimination. Martinez and Peden also accuse the city of retaliating against them after they raised their concerns about pay.<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s arguments were recently supported by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that investigates employment discrimination, which found that the City had indeed discriminated against them. The EEOC also found that the City’s use of \u201ccounseling letters\u201d to respond to the women’s concerns about their pay constituted a violation (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three female employees of the City of San Antonio, Texas have filed a federal lawsuit alleging pay discrimination. Christine Peden and Jeanne Martinez, employees of the City’s Animal Care Services, discovered they were being paid less than male coworkers with…<\/span><\/p>\n