Two Women Sue Apple for Paying Female Employees Less Than Male Counterparts in the US
In a significant legal move, Apple Inc. is being sued by two female employees who allege systemic gender-based pay discrimination. The lawsuit claims that Apple consistently pays women less than their male counterparts for similar work, potentially affecting thousands of other women at the tech giant. The two plaintiffs, Justina Jong and Amina Salgado, are seeking to represent over 12,000 current and former female employees in Apple’s engineering, marketing, and AppleCare divisions in California. The plaintiffs argue that Apple’s practices before 2018 perpetuated historical pay disparities between men and women by determining starting salaries based on an employee’s compensation history. Although California outlawed this practice in 2018, Apple then shifted to asking for salary expectations, which the plaintiffs claim entrenches the existing pay disparity. Joe Sellers, a lawyer at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC representing the employees, stated that Apple’s policies had a
