Bureau of Labor & Industries v. City of Roseburg

The City of Roseburg (city) petitions for review of an order of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries. She held that the city committed an unlawful employment practice by discriminating against complainant (Mobley) in compensation because of her sex. ORS 659.030(1)(b).

The city assigns as errors that the Commissioner (1) allowed the Bureau to amend its charges to delete the words “substantially equal skill, effort and responsibility” and to substitute the words “of comparable character, the performance of which requires comparable skills”; (2) erroneously made ultimate…