January 16, 2013 - Texas Workforce Commission

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1 employee of a school district, who was released. The
2 released employee was over 40 years of age. The
3 employee was replaced by another worker who was also
4 over 40 and, in addition, older than the worker who
5 was released. And the Texas Supreme Court said that,
6 based on those allegations, that does not satisfy
7 the -- the prima facie elements of the case.
8 The -- the other case, and in my opinion
9 a little bit more interesting case, was the case
10 involved Prairie View A&M University. The name of the
11 plaintiff in the case, I believe, is pronounced
12 Chatha. It's C-h-a-t-h-a. The plaintiff was a -- I
13 believe a professor at the university, filed a
14 complaint under Chapter 21 relating to a difference in
15 compensation based on sex or gender. And the question
16 before the Court of Appeals was whether the federal
17 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act amendments to Title VII
18 were automatically incorporated into Chapter 21.
19 And -- and, just as background,
20 Ms. Ledbetter worked for Goodyear Tire and Rubber
21 Company for a -- a number of years. I think it's been
22 described as decades. She learned that the -- her
23 male co-workers were paid more than she was.
24 She filed a complaint of discrimination,
25 and the United States Supreme Court ruled that the