Pfiz­er agrees to $2M set­tle­ment deal over gen­der dis­crim­i­na­tion al­le­ga­tions

Pfiz­er will pay $2 mil­lion to clear al­le­ga­tions from the US De­part­ment of La­bor that it un­der­paid fe­male em­ploy­ees at its New York City head­quar­ters com­pared to men in sim­i­lar jobs.

That amount in­cludes just over $1.2 mil­lion in back pay and near­ly $738,000 in in­ter­est, ac­cord­ing to doc­u­ments pub­lished by the DOL. The agency ac­cused Pfiz­er of dis­crim­i­nat­ing against 86 women af­ter con­duct­ing a com­pli­ance re­view from Jan. 1, 2015 to Dec. 31, 2016.

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