Employers Can’t Pay Women Less Than Men For Doing The Same Job ― Regardless Of What Their Past Salaries Were, A Federal Court Ruled On Monday.

A panel of 11 judges with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cited the federal Equal Pay Act in ruling unanimously that an employee’s salary from a previous job did not justify paying them less than another employee for the same work.

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“You can’t allow prior discriminatory salary setting to justify future ones or you perpetuate the discrimination,” Deborah Rhode, a professor of gender equity law at Stanford Law School, told The Associated Press of the prior ruling last year.