Opinion ID: 791723
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Claim of Pay Raise Discrimination Against Morris

Text: 22 Davis claims she was denied raises given to Pearson and Gatlin, white employees. Even if we again assume that Davis can establish a prima facie case, she has no evidence of pretext in regards to Morris's legitimate, non-discriminatory justification for its decision. 23 Morris's justification for not giving Davis raises was that she stated in 1994 that she did not want a raise if it was only one or two percent 2 and she had not earned a larger raise after 1994. Troy Thompson testified that he did not recommend Davis for a larger raise because Davis made more mistakes in her job performance than other employees, Davis had failed to attend mock news casts at the new KARK-TV facility, a requirement of her job, and he had taken over many of her duties. Further, he stated that she had a poor attitude toward her work. Davis only points out that Pearson and Gatlin received raises of more than one percent, she does not identify workers who received raises larger than the two percent. The only raise larger than two percent that she identifies was a two and one-half percent raise she received, and accepted, in 1994. Davis offers no evidence that race was a motivation for denying her pay raises. Accordingly, we conclude that the district court correctly found that Davis failed to demonstrate that Morris's stated legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for not offering her a raise was pretextual. 24