Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that federal equal pay act “entrusts employers, not judges, with making the often uncertain decision of how to accomplish business objectives”
• explaining that federal equal pay act “entrusts employers, not judges, with making the often uncertain decision of how to accomplish business objectives”
• stating that \a factor like prior salary . . . can easily be used to capitalize on the unfairly low salaries historically paid to women\
• “An employer thus cannot use a factor which causes a wage differential between male and female employees absent an acceptable business reason.”
• “[A] factor used to effectuate some business policy is not prohibited simply because a wage differential results.”
• a wage differential between a male and female must be grounded in an acceptable business reason

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).