New York City’s 5,000 school safety agents have signed on to a class action lawsuit accusing the city of paying them less than the special officers who perform similar work at homeless shelters and hospitals, SchoolBook reports.
The suit claims that the city is violating the federal Equal Pay Act because the majority of school safety agents are female, the article says. Three women with long careers as school safety agents filed the lawsuit in 2010.
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