Apple Sued by Female Employees Claiming Pay 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.” Then, when California outlawed the practice, the iPhone maker started asking for salary expectations, entrenching the disparity, the women claim. “Apple’s policy...