Wilma Hein, and Others Similarly Situated v. Oregon College of Education

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• holding that, in a professional setting such as a college, the proper comparison is to the average of wages paid to all similarly situated employees of the opposite sex
• reasoning that if a claim could be defeated by showing that the plaintiff had 18 FREYD V. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON additional duties, employers could easily subvert the intent of the Equal Pay Act
• remand for determination of whether plaintiffs job was substantially equal to any other male comparators, noting that any party could introduce evidence of other comparators
• “[The EPA] embodies the 9 deceptively simple principle that ‘employees doing equal work should be paid equal 10 wages, regardless of sex.’”
• plaintiffs prima facie case flawed where plaintiff chose single employee for comparison because he was highest-paid, not because he was only comparable employee
• “The only comparison of skills that should be made in a prima facie case is a comparison of skills required by a job”

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