Seyfarth Synopsis: In the first case of its
kind under the California Fair Pay Act, a court dismissed a pay
equity class claim against Google, holding that alleging wage
discrimination for "all women" does not plead enough
information to sustain a complaint.
You have learned, in following our updates on California's
Fair Pay Act (
2015 passage,
2016 update 1 to include more than gender, and
update 2,
DLSE FAQ updates, and the
AB1209 Gender Pay Gap Transparency Act update), that the
FPA's requirements are hardly transparent. Well, last week, in
the first ruling of its kind, a California court has provided a
little clarity.
As reported here by our Pay
Equity Group, a court has dismissed a sweeping class action
complaint against Google, seeking to represent "all women
employed by Google in California" on claims of gender-based
wage discrimination. The court held that the plaintiffs had not
adequately alleged an ascertainable class, meaning there was no way
to
