[DOWNLOAD] "Lang v. Kohls Food Stores" by Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Lang v. Kohls Food Stores
- Author : Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 22, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
Description
Kohls Food Stores, a grocery chain in Wisconsin, operates under collective bargaining agreements that establish wage classifications. Jobs in the bakery and deli departments fall into one classification, jobs in the produce department another. Two facts give rise to this litigation: pay in the produce department is higher, and workers are not distributed uniformly by sex. Most bakery and deli workers are women, while most produce workers are men. Plaintiffs, a class of women who work in the deli and bakery departments, contend that the difference violates both the Equal Pay Act, 29 U.S.C. sec.206(d), and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Kohls replies that plaintiffs are short-sighted: employees in the produce department are included within a pay category called "regular clerks," most of whom are female. That most regular clerks in the produce department are men does not undercut the fact that most regular clerks store-wide are women, Kohls insists. The employer adds that women who want to be regular clerks in or out of the produce department do not face any discrimination in hiring or transfer. None of the class representatives applied for transfer to the produce department or another regular-clerk position; instead they want higher pay for their existing work. The ratio of wages between "department clerks" (the jobs plaintiffs occupy) and "regular clerks," Kohls insists, is a subject for collective bargaining rather than for litigation.