Local 375 of District Council 37 brought a Federal complaint against the de Blasio administration, alleging that it was paying its engineers lower wages than those in the private sector. The class-action charge, filed March 23, asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to intervene and to ultimately impose a 20-percent “salary adjustment.”
The local represents 7,500 engineers and other technical employees who work for 30 city agencies. Its filing said the city systematically discriminated against them because the predominantly foreign-born workers are paid as much as 25 percent less than those in the private sector, who it said are largely American-born.
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