Medsurant Forced Female Technician to Quit for Protesting Being Underpaid Because of Her Sex, Federal Agency Charges
PHILADELPHIA – A Pennsylvania health care services company violated federal civil rights laws by paying a female technician less than males on the basis of sex and by retaliating against her for complaining, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit it filed today.
Conshohocken-based Medsurant Holdings, LLC, which operates under the trade name Medsurant Health and owns Medsurant, LLC and Medsurant Operating, LLC (collectively “Medsurant Health”), provides intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring services to hospitals and surgeons. Medsurant Health’s monitoring services are performed by intraoperative neurophysiology monitorists.
According to EEOC’s lawsuit, the female monitorist was paid less than her male coworkers for performing equal work under similar working conditions, despite her excellent credentials and performance history. After the woman complained on at least two occasions, Medsurant Health retaliated against her and treated her differently than similarly situated male colleagues, resulting in her being forced to quit.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibit pay discrimination based on sex and retaliation for opposing sex discrimination. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (EEOC v....
Abbott Laboratories, the Illinois-based healthcare company that manufactures and sells infant formula and nutritional therapy products, has agreed to pay $384,999,040 to resolve allegations that i...