Walt Disney has agreed to pay $43.3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its female employees in California earned $150 million less than their male counterparts over an eight-year period, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said in a statement on Monday.
As part of the settlement, Disney has agreed to retain a labor economist for three years to analyze pay equity among full-time, non-union California employees below the vice president level, and address differences, the three law firms representing the plaintiffs said.
The suit was originally filed by LaRonda Rasmussen in 2019, after she learned that six men with the same job title earned substantially more than her, including one man with several years less experience, who was earning $20,000 a year more than she did….