Auburn University is reviewing complaints by a group of employees alleging they are paid less than co-workers of a different race who perform the same job.
Mike Clardy, director of university communications, said the university is working with the employees to resolve the issue.
But the University’s response has been too slow, according to Auburn City Council Member Arthur L. Dowdell, who said he plans a press conference early next week to highlight the issue.
Dowdell said the group of about eight black employees who do custodial work filed complaints with the university and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission office in Birmingham in early October.
Attempts to contact the EEOC office in Birmingham for confirmation and the employees Dowdell said filed the complaint Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Clardy said the university had responded to inquiries from Dowdell.
“We did receive a communication from Reverend Dowdell, and we let him know we were working on a resolution,” Clardy said.
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