Equal Pay Lawsuit

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…

U.S. Women’s Soccer Equal Pay Lawsuit Sign of the Times [UPDATE]

By Robert Sheen | July 9, 2019

Now that the U.S. Senior Women’s Soccer Team (USWNT) has won again on the field, can the players forge a similar victory off the field to achieve equal pay? The USWNT rewrote the record books at the recent World Cup competition, thoroughly dominating the competition in winning its fourth World Cup, and second in a…