A $1 million jury verdict was reversed by the Iowa Supreme Court docket, which concluded an worker’s go well with for unlawful wage discrimination based mostly on intercourse and wrongful retaliation lacked substantial proof.
The courtroom held in a Feb. 2 decision that the report didn’t comprise substantial proof of an unlawful pay follow, with the employer, Des Moines Space Neighborhood Faculty, demonstrating that the pay hole between the feminine worker and her male co-worker was because of gender-neutral components, together with seniority and the “resolution made to rent the male worker in 1998 at a specific fee based mostly on market situations and the worker’s appreciable expertise.”
