Largent v. West Virginia Division of Health

NEELY, Justice.

The Appellants in this case, Jaqueline Lar-gent, Charlotte Kingrey, Mary Carter, Ella Roberts, and Rachel Smith filed a grievance against the West Virginia Division of Health (now the Department of Health and Human Resources) and the West Virginia Division of Personnel, after they discovered that a fellow worker, D.M.,1 was making 18 percent more money than the Appellants were for doing the same work. The Appellants contend that because D.M. is making more money for doing the same work, the principle of “equal pay for equal work” has been violated and that their constitutional…