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Nassau female 911 operators win $7M pay suit
Quick ReadA federal court has ordered Nassau County to pay $7 million next month to compensate female Nassau County 911 operators who argued in a lawsuit that they were paid significantly less than men doing similar work.
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp, 2010 | Nassau County's female 911 operators and supervisors were underpaid, a federal court has ruled in a class action.
A federal court has ordered Nassau County to pay $7 million next month to compensate female Nassau County 911 operators who argued in a lawsuit that they were paid significantly less than men doing similar work.
But the payment, due by Feb. 13, is tangled in the county's strained finances. The Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a state watchdog in control of the county's finances, must approve...
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