United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. First National Bank

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NORDBERG, District Judge.

Upon retiring in 1983, Benjamin C. Homola became disquieted that, whatever advantages his sex were thought to have given him in life, his monthly pension payments would not be among them. His employer of thirty years, the First National Bank of Chicago (“the Bank”), like many employers of a bygone era, had once permitted women to retire at a younger age— and so accumulate pension benefits at a faster rate — than similarly situated men. The Bank gradually eliminated these differences in response to Supreme Court decisions and Equal…