Morgan State Professor Files Lawsuit Against University Stating That She Was Paid Less Than Her Man Colleagues

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Morgan State University prof is suing the schoolhouse aft she says that for years, she’s been paid little than her antheral colleagues whose qualifications lucifer hers.

“The archetypal suit was filed successful 2018, truthful this has been an contented for immoderate time,” said Aderson Francois, lawyer for Dr. Leah Hollis.

Dr. Leah Hollis has done a bulk of her probe successful “Bullying successful Higher Education” and arsenic a prof astatine Morgan State University, she filed a suit successful 2018 saying the school, was not paying her the aforesaid magnitude arsenic men successful her position. The suit states she believes adjacent men with little acquisition and acquisition were paid much than her.

In 2019 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recovered her assertion was justified and the schoolhouse yet granted Hollis Tenure.

“The information that Dr. Hollis is inactive not being promoted oregon paid reasonably is unconscionable. She was astatine 60k 12 years and to present beryllium astatine 65k is conscionable unconscionable. It’s close that she’s going aft the organization,” said Francois.

Now, aft seeking promotions with the school, she is erstwhile again successful court, aft filing amendments to her archetypal lawsuit.

“She is warring for the precise happening she advocates for. She believes successful Morgan State and believes they’ll bash the close thing. This is systemic and she knows it’s not conscionable her who has suffered,” Francois added.

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WJZ reached retired to Morgan State and a spokesperson said “As a substance of assemblage practice, they volition not remark connected immoderate pending litigation.”