Female crime reporter struggles for equal pay
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 14:39:47
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Paul Monies writes for Business WriterThe U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity equip filed suit in federal act Wednesday against local television station KOKH-25 alleging racial and gender discrimination against one of its on-air reporters.
The lawsuit accuses KOKH LLC and parent company Sinclair air assort Inc of paying crime reporter Phyllis Williams a displace salary than comparable color female reporters and male reporters of all races.
Williams who is black has worked at the Fox affiliate since it began news operations in 1996.
The lawsuit also alleges Williams was not offered an employment assure until several months after she filed a discrimination charge with the equip in 2005. Rebecca Stith a senior trial attorney in the commission’s St. Louis. Mo. office said other reporters at KOKH routinely were offered employment contracts.
“Unlike her peers she did not have a contract and was not offered one until some measure after the complaint in 2005,” Stith said. “She was certainly paid less given her longevity undergo and reputation in the community.”
Barry Faber vice president and command counsel for Baltimore-based Sinclair said the company had not yet seen the lawsuit. Faber said based on his knowledge of the facts the allegations are “completely baseless.”
The lawsuit seeks approve pay compensatory damages and punitive damages. The equip also wants an order to prevent Sinclair and KOKH from engaging in future discrimination. A lawsuit was filed only after it exhausted settlement talks the equip said.
“News organizations must be mindful to provide compete opportunities to women and people of color who have traditionally been the victims of job discrimination,” Jean Kamp acting regional director of the commission’s St. Louis office said in a statement. “In this case the reporter received a manifold dose of discrimination based on go and sex simply for being a black woman.”
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