February 23, 2022
A settlement agreement the women’s national soccer team cut means the Ninth Circuit won’t weigh in on the metric for determining pay bias under the Equal Pay Act, an issue the Fourth Circuit recently took up that's leaving workers and employers without additional guidance. Here, Law360 looks at this metric issue in light of the deal.
December 07, 2021
A Fourth Circuit ruling that the metric for determining sex-based discrimination under the Equal Pay Act is pay rate, not total wages, clarifies how courts should analyze such claims, workers' attorneys said, though management-side attorneys questioned how applicable the ruling is to other cases.
December 03, 2021
The proper metric for determining sex-based wage discrimination under federal law is the underlying pay rate for employees, not the employees' total wages, the Fourth Circuit said Friday in an opinion that referenced a friend-of-the-court brief by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.