Employers Must Pay Equal Pay to Females

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently settled a lawsuit regarding equal pay with a multipurpose psychiatric facility.  According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Finan paid a male recreation therapist higher wages than his four female employees who have more experience than him. Their requests to Finan to equalize their pay were ignored. Such alleged conduct allegedly violates the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits pay discrimination between persons of the opposite sex for performing equal work. In addition to the monetary relief of $270,000 paid to the female recreation therapists, Finan is not allowed to engage in pay discrimination or retaliate against employees in the future. See EEOC v. Thomas B. Finan Maryland Department of Health, Case No. MJM-22-2407 (D. Md.) ​