Court Opinion

ID: 9471062
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 03:24:28.859866+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:42:15.476505
License: Public Domain

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part:
I concur in the disposition of this case, but I must respectfully dissent from that part of the opinion which states that the allegations of the complaint did not state a per se violation of the Equal Pay Act.
The complaint alleges that Dr. Berry was required to do twice as much work as her male counterparts for the same amount of pay. To say, as does the majority, that for an employee to pay a male and female employee the same salary and to require that the female do twice as much work for the salary is not to pay “wages to employees ... at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work” is, as it seems to me, to misread completely not only the purpose but also the language of the statute. To require twice as much work for a given dollar cannot satisfy the requirement of the statute that an employer pay the same rate of pay for equal work.
I would therefore hold that Dr. Berry’s complaint alleged a claim under the Equal Pay Act without the necessity for a remand to the trial court to consider whether she alleged a claim by stating that her extra workload made it impossible for her to earn outside compensation which was permitted to her male counterparts.
In all events, I concur in the disposition that is made by the Court in remanding the case for further proceedings.