Legal Opinion
Corning Glass Works v. Brennan
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 3, 1974No. 73-29PublishedCited by 1,287 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
These cases arise under the Equal Pay Act of 1963, 77 Stat. 56, §3, 29 U. S. C. §206 (d)(1), 1 which added to § 6 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 the principle of equal pay for equal work regardless of sex. The principal question posed is whether Corning Glass Works violated the Act by paying a higher base wage to male night shift inspectors than it paid to female inspectors performing the same tasks on the day shift, where the higher wage was paid in addition to a separate night shift differential paid to all employees for night work. In No. 73-29, the Court of Appeals for the Second…
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