City agrees to $17M in gender pay settlement – By Jessica Dyer (Albuquerque Journal) / Nov 2, 2022
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The city of Albuquerque has agreed to pay $17 million to settle a collective action lawsuit brought by female employees who claimed the city “systematically” pays women less than their male colleagues.
The settlement agreement, which still requires a judge’s approval, will provide back pay to the plaintiffs and other class members. Each is entitled to the difference between what they were actually paid and what they should have made “had they earned the same rate of base pay as the highest paid male with the same job description” from June 14, 2013, to now, according to settlement documents posted online.
That could mean a few hundred dollars for some of the women in the 431-member class to more than $100,000 for others, said attorney Alexandra Freedman Smith. Smith represented the plaintiffs with David A. Freedman of Freedman Boyd Hollander & Goldberg.
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