Under the federal Equal Pay Act, your employer may not discriminate against you on the basis of your gender in relation to salary. Men and women both working in substantially similar jobs, requiring equal skill, effort, and responsibility, in like working conditions, are entitled to be paid equally.

If you are a female working in Silicon Valley, and you believe that you are being paid less than a man doing substantially the same work with the same responsibility, you may have an employment claim against your boss. However, your boss may be able to show that the discrepancy in pay is based on factors other than sex. If your employer cannot do this, you may have a strong case. If you can prove that a legitimate pay bias exists, your employer is required to correct the pay gap by increasing the salary of the lower paid sex. Your boss may not respond by lowering the wage of the higher paid gender.

The Silicon Valley technology industry is often times a male dominated industry. If you are a woman who has tried to climb the corporate ladder, but has been denied similar wages for similar work and responsibilities with male co-workers, you are not alone. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently decided to accept a case brought against Wal-Mart by former workers. These workers alleged that Wal-Mart had a gender bias in pay that reached across the whole country.

If you believe that your employer is paying you less than a male co-worker for the same type of work, don’t wait to get help. Call experience employment lawyers, Law Offices of David H. Greenberg at 1-888-204-1014. Call us for a free consultation. You can also visit us at www.discriminationattorney.com to learn more.