More than 200 School Crossing Guards sued the city last week on the grounds that the mostly-female workforce is being paid roughly $3.50 less per hour than the male-dominated Traffic Enforcement Agent Level II title despite doing comparable work.
The suit, which alleges that the city is violating the Federal Equal Pay Act, aims to ”set right the effects of decades-long economic mistreatment directed at the city’s School Crossing Guards, who are predominately female and are treated unfairly because they are women.”
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