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Equal Pay Act Claim Requires Equal “Job Content”, Second Circuit Holds

By Barry Barnett on September 30, 2014

Shutterstock_158653760Equal pay for equal work

The Equal Pay Act of 1963, 29 U.S.C. 206(d), mandates equal pay for "equal work".

But what does "equal work" mean? A ruling by the Second Circuit focuses on the "content" of the "work" and rejects titles and labels as the basis for comparing male and female workers.

"Actual…

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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