Freyd v. Univ. of Or.

MCSHANE, Judge:

As a concept, pay equity seems simple in its application-men and women performing the same job function are entitled to the same pay without regard to their gender. The Equal Pay Act, among other state and federal laws, requires employers to adopt compensation practices to ensure that female workers are paid the same as their male counterparts for work of comparable value. It would be a violation of the law, for example, to pay a male elementary school teacher more than a female elementary school teacher if both are of the same tenure, work the same number of hours, *1288and perform…