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10-18-2023 SpaceX Pays Women and Black People Less Than Their White, Male Counterparts for Doing the Same Job: Class Action Lawsuit
PLUS: Once a Bastion of Saftey and Equality, Work-from-Home Rates Take a Post-Pandemic Drop
Lisa D. Sparks
October 18, 2023
We lead with two stories in the center of race, tech, and gender today. First up we have a recently filed lawsuit against SpaceX for discriminatory pay and promotion practices. Next we see the work trend that benefited women and the underrepresented is dwindling away.
Today’s Top 5 News Stories in Tech, Race, and Gender
1 / SpaceX Pays Women and Black People Less Than Their White, Male Counterparts for Doing the Same Job: Class Action Lawsuit
The Elon Musk-owned SpaceX now faces legal action for pay disparity practices based on race and gender.
Ashley Foltz, a former engineer at SpaceX, was paid $23,000 less in annual salary than her white, male counterparts. She knows this thanks to California’s pay transparency law which requires employers to report pay ranges in job postings.
🥹 Once the California law took effect, Foltz received a $5,000 pay bump to match the advertised pay range in a job description matching her role at SpaceX. That’s according to Foltz’s class action lawsuit Foltz filed in California state court last Tuesday. Her suit alleges that SpaceX gave her the raise to cover up their pay disparities based on race and gender.
Foltz alleges that SpaceX hires women and minorities into lower-level positions in order to justify lower salaries and promotes men and white employees at a greater rate than other workers, exacerbating the disparity in pay.
SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The lawsuit is the latest to accuse companies owned or run by Musk of employment discrimination.
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