Vice Media has agreed to pay $1.875 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by female employees who said that the company underpaid women in their workforce, according to a court filing submitted Monday to a Los Angeles Superior Court judge.
The company has maintained that there was never any centralized gender pay disparity but agreed in mediation to the payout to past female employees, who is around 675 people.
The suit was brought by Elizabeth Rose, who worked with Vice as a project manager from 2014-2016, and argued that Vice’s practice of relying on past salary data to determine how to pay current employees had resulted in unfair and systemic underpayment for women at the company. Rose and other plaintiffs said Vice’s pay practices violated New York and California labor laws.
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In a statement, Vice...
The company has maintained that there was never any centralized gender pay disparity but agreed in mediation to the payout to past female employees, who is around 675 people.
The suit was brought by Elizabeth Rose, who worked with Vice as a project manager from 2014-2016, and argued that Vice’s practice of relying on past salary data to determine how to pay current employees had resulted in unfair and systemic underpayment for women at the company. Rose and other plaintiffs said Vice’s pay practices violated New York and California labor laws.
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In a statement, Vice...
- 3/27/2019
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Vice has agreed to a $1.875 million deal to resolve a class action lawsuit brought by some of the media company's female workforce. The proposed settlement was quietly submitted for approval to a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday. By the looks of the court papers, Vice was likely saved from paying millions more because the company tends to employ younger women.
Elizabeth Rose was one of the named plaintiffs leading the charge that Vice violated New York and California equal pay laws. According to the complaint, she was employed as a channel and project manager between ...
Elizabeth Rose was one of the named plaintiffs leading the charge that Vice violated New York and California equal pay laws. According to the complaint, she was employed as a channel and project manager between ...
- 3/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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