Legal Question in Employment Law in Georgia
one female starts a job, 3 months later another female is hired to do the same job. The first female is a single parent of 2, no child support (father in jail) and one of the kids has sickle cell, the other is married and financially stable. The single one makes $2/hr more. Is that discrimination against the married employee?
2 Answers from Attorneys
Married people are not a legally protected class. There is no general right to be paid the same as someone else (or to even have the job). That is a business issue, not a legal issue.
If the only difference is marriage, it is not discrimination, unless the employer justifies the difference with statements like "females don't need to make money because they have a man to support them." (or other discriminatory statements).
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