Patricia Covington v. Southern Illinois University

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the EPA does not preclude “an employer from carrying out a policy which, although not based on employee performance, has in no way been shown to undermine the goals of the EPA”
• “The flaw in Covington’s argument is that Lemasters’ starting and ending salaries as art advisor were influenced by his previous period of employment in the School of Music.”
• “Although we realize that a plaintiff need not establish discriminatory intent . . . we do not believe that the Act precludes an employer from carrying out a policy which . . . has in no way been shown to undermine the goals of the EPA.”

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