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A federal law called the Equal Pay Act requires that men and women in the same workplace receive equal pay for equal work. The jobs need not be identical, but they must be substantially equal.
While women often seek relief under this statute, a state government agency learned the hard way that “equal pay for equal work” applies to underpaid men, too.
Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced (here) that it had settled with a state government agency that had allegedly paid one of its male employees less than several female employees who performed the same job
