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(Portland, ME) The National Women’s Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit today urging it to uphold a Maine federal district court’s ruling that the Maine Equal Pay Law forbids sex-based disparities in employee pay, regardless of the employer’s intent. In Mundell v. Acadia Hospital Corp., the court is asked for the first time to decide whether a plaintiff suing under Maine’s statute must prove that her employer intended to discriminate against her, or whether the fact that she did the same work for half the pay as her male colleagues was enough to prove that her employer had violated the law.
Doctor Claire Mundell, a psychologist at Northern Light Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine, learned in a chance conversation with her male colleague that he earned nearly twice what she did performing the same work. Dr. Mundell and other female psychologists earned $50 an hour each for their work, while their male colleagues earned $90 or more an hour each for work that took the same skill, effort and responsibility. The Maine District Court found that the Maine Equal Pay Act forbids paying men and women differently when they perform comparable work, regardless of whether the employer was maliciously or intentionally...
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