Plaintiffs Justina Jong and Amina Salgado filed the suit as a class-action complaint, proposing a class of 12,000 California women who work in Apple’s engineering, marketing and AppleCare divisions or who worked in one of those divisions over the past four years. They allege that Apple’s pay policies “systematically” leave women with lower wage rates than men and are seeking back pay, interest and damages. The complaint alleges a few forms of bias at Apple, including in its performance evaluation system and practice of selecting employees for higher pay. But...

Apple is reportedly being sued by two employees who are accusing the tech giant of gender discrimination. Two women filed a proposed class-action lawsuit Thursday in San Francisco state court, according to Reuters, that would cover more than 12,000 current and former female employees in California. The suit accuses Apple of paying women less than their male counterparts for the same type of work, and claims the company's performance review system is biased against women, resulting in lower salaries. The plaintiffs claim Apple has violated California's Equal Pay Act, which...

Apple “systematically” underpaid women compared to their male counterparts, a potential class action lawsuit from a pair of employees alleges. The suit, filed in San Francisco state court on Thursday, argues that the tech giant’s hiring practices and performance-review system both lead to women being paid less than men for the same work. The action alleges that more than 12,000 current and former Apple employees could qualify as part of the lawsuit if it’s certified. One of the plaintiffs, Justina Jong, said she was motivated to join the suit when...

Apple Inc. was sued by two female employees who claim it “systemically” pays women less than their male counterparts for similar work, and who are seeking to represent thousands of other women facing the same alleged discrimination.

Apple Inc. was sued by two female employees who claim it “systemically” pays women less than their male counterparts for similar work, and who are seeking to represent thousands of other women facing the same alleged discrimination.

They claim that Apple, of Cupertino, California, determined starting salaries before 2018 by asking employees for their compensation history and that this practice “perpetuated historic pay disparities between men and women.”

Two female employees at Apple sued the company on Thursday, alleging the company paid women less than men for the same work. The women are proposing a class action, seeking to represent more than 12,000 current and former female employees in the engineering, marketing and AppleCare divisions. Apple is not the first major tech company to face legal challenges for alleged gender discrimination. Google in 2018 agreed to pay $118 million to settle a class action gender discrimination lawsuit, and Oracle agreed to pay $25 million to settle a class...

California sought to protect women and minorities from wage discrimination in 2018 by prohibiting employers from basing a newly hired worker’s pay on their salary at a previous job, or asking them what they were paid. But a new lawsuit says Apple Inc. sidestepped the law – and cheated female employees out of tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars – by asking applicants for their “pay expectations.” Studies show that people’s pay expectations are typically “slightly higher than the pay at their current or last job,” lawyers for...