9th Circuit Stays Mandate After Finding Prior Salary Not Reason For Gender Pay Gap

Mealey's (March 12, 2020, 10:23 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — An en banc Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a one-sentence order issued March 9 granted an unopposed motion to stay the mandate in an equal pay lawsuit after a California superintendent argued that the court’s en banc  Feb. 27 ruling that an employee’s prior salary is not a “factor other than sex” that permits a female employee to be paid less than her male counterparts creates a circuit split (Aileen Rizo v. Jim Yovino, No. 16-15372, 9th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 7313)....