Legislation Professors
Legislation prof, 78, sues Northwestern for alleged age bias in pay raises
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A regulation professor who has been instructing on the Northwestern College Pritzker Faculty of Legislation since 1981 has filed an age discrimination lawsuit alleging that he’s receiving much less in base pay than “considerably youthful much less skilled counterparts.”
Philip F. Postlewaite, 78, alleges that annual will increase in his base pay have lagged behind that paid to youthful professors since he rejected an early retirement choice in December 2013. The choice was supplied to the regulation college’s oldest college members, and lots of others accepted the provide.
Reuters, Law360, the Daily Northwestern and Above the Law have tales on the Nov. 7 suit, filed within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Northern District of Illinois.
The go well with described Postlewaite as “one of many preeminent students within the subject of tax regulation.” He began an LLM tax program at Northwestern that was “operational and revenue-producing” by August 2002. Now, it’s persistently ranked as one of many prime 4 tax packages within the nation. He’s the director of this system.
Postlewaite receives a base wage and an administrative stipend for his LLM tax duties. The go well with mentioned his base wage is $7,000 beneath the fiftieth percentile wage, which is listed at $289,224 by Northwestern.
The go well with alleges violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Illinois Human Rights Act.
