A jury must decide if a female school superintendent in New York performed substantially equal work compared to four better-paid male superintendents and if the pay differential was based on sex, a federal judge ruled.
Hunter-Tannersville Central School District undisputedly paid a lower starting salary when adjusted for inflation to Susan Vickers than the two men who preceded her and the two men who succeeded her, the US District Court for the Northern District of New York said in a lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Also, only Vickers wasn’t initially offered pay for unused vacation and sick ...