Belfi v. Prendergast

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• holding that “[c]ircumstantial evidence in the form of differing and inconsistent explanations from the [defendant] raise questions of fact to rebut its alleged non-discriminatory reasons for the wage disparity, and may provide the jury with a basis to find pretext”
• noting that a “plaintiff may counter the employer’s affirmative defense by producing evidence that the reasons the defendant seeks to advance are actually a pretext for sex discrimination”
• holding that under Title VII, even when a plaintiff showed that “the explanations offered by her employer for wage disparity are false, . . . it must also be shown that not only was the reason offered false, but that the real reason was discrimination”
• “[T]o successfully establish the ‘factor other than sex’ defense, an employer must also demonstrate that it had a legitimate business reason for implementing the gender-neutral factor that brought about the wage differential.”
• genuine issues of material fact existed as to whether employer’s gender-neutral explanations for female employee’s unequal pay, ie., seniority and its gender-neutral application of its salary plan, were pretextual, precluding summary judgment as to Equal Pay Act claim

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