Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA)

The Difficulty in Identifying Comparators for Equal Pay Claims

By Nicholas Starkman | June 4, 2020

Pay equity litigation is proceeding apace despite the COVID-19 pandemic, and claimants are raising critical issues pertaining to the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (“EPA”). The EPA requires that an employee claiming gender-based wage discrimination first demonstrate that employees of the opposite sex were paid different wages for substantially equal work. To show that the…

Despite Dismissal at Court, USWNT Continues Pay Equity Claim

By Nicholas Starkman | May 12, 2020

It was a stunning defeat for a team that has seemed at times invincible—but it was not on the soccer pitch. On Friday May 1, 2020, a federal district court judge dismissed the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s (USWNT) claim of unequal pay against the United States Soccer Federation (USSF). Undaunted, the USWNT has appealed…