News Notes: Employee’s Lack of Experience Defeats Equal Pay Claim

Paula Green, who was hired by the Ontario office of Par Pools as a swimming pool construction superintendent, complained that her $400-per-week salary was lower than the salaries paid to male construction superintendents with jobs identical to hers. She sued Par Pools under the California equal pay law. But a California Court of Appeal dismissed her case, finding Par Pools demonstrated the pay differential wasn’t based on gender but rather the fact that Green had less work experience than her co-workers.