Legal Opinion
Christiana v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 13, 1993No. 92 Civ. 7816 (VLB)PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
VINCENT L. BRODERICK, District Judge.
I
This case involves an alleged violation of the Equal Pay Act (the “Act”), 29 U.S.C. § 206(d)(1), brought by the plaintiff Victoria Christiana (the “plaintiff’) against her employer Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (the “employer”). It presents the question of whether a company-wide or location-wide salary retention policy is a legitimate defense under the Act as .a “seniority system” or “factor other than sex,” justifying a wage disparity between individual employees of different genders and so as not to constitute a violation of the…
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