James D. Hodgson, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Security National Bank of Sioux City

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

The Secretary of Labor brought this action for an injunction and other relief against the Security National Bank of Sioux City, Iowa (Bank), to remedy the latter’s alleged violations of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d) (1). The complaint charged the Bank with paying female paying-and-reeeiving tellers less than men doing equivalent work. The Bank sought to distinguish the male from the female employee by labeling the former “management trainees." The district court, in an unreported opinion, upheld this distinction as a valid exception to the equal pay…