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· 6/6/1989

Beverly A. Waters v. Turner, Wood & Smith Insurance Agency, Inc.

Citations

  • 874 F.2d 797
  • 29 Wage & Hour Cas. (BNA) 587
  • 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 7863
  • 50 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 39,080
  • 50 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 327
  • 1989 WL 51548

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding that an insurance agent failed to raise a genuine factual issue that her comparators were substantially equal when she failed to rebut evidence that they were tasked with seven different important duties
  • granting summary judgment for the employer because it identified seven of nine total job duties that the plaintiff did not perform
  • requiring an Equal Pay Act plaintiff to plead a prima facie case showing that the employer paid different wages to employees of opposite sexes for the same work
  • “The standard for determining whether jobs are equal in terms of skill, effort, and responsibility is high.”
  • plaintiff failed to make a prima facie case of unequal pay because the job responsibilities of the male comparators were greater than her job responsibilities
  • “The standard for determining whether jobs are equal in terms of skill, effort, and responsibility is high.”

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Judges: Kravitch, Clark, Henderson

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