The VA was found guilty of discrimination on the basis of pay:
Dr. Talukdar, who now works in Houston, was terminated in 2002 after participating in a federal investigation into whether the VAMC was underpaying doctors in the visa program. As a result of the audit, the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor Dept. ordered the hospital to pay more than $200,000 in back wages to several doctors, court documents show.






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