Los Angeles Times food critic Patricia Escarcega denounced the newspaper in a Twitter thread on Sunday, accusing her employers of paying her significantly less than her white male counterparts. “Why hire the first Latinx restaurant critic in the history of the L.A. Times and then pay them so much less for doing the exact same work?” she tweeted. It is immoral, unethical, and illegal.”In the thread, Escarcega recounts how she filed a pay discrimination claim through the L.A. Times Guild six months ago after discovering she was being paid two-thirds of what fellow critic Bill Addison was being paid. Both Addison and Escarcega were hired two years ago to replace late longtime critic Jonathan Gold, with Addison coming to the Times after serving as the national food critic at Eater, while Escarcega came from the same position at the Phoenix New Times. Also Read: LA Times Owner Pledges to Make Newsroom One-Quarter Latino in Next 5 Years“The LA Times is not immune to the disease of institutional racism metastasizing in our country.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 15, 2020 20:40 UTC