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From Staff and Wire Reports
RICHMOND — A 1984 administrative study of the issue of comparable worth in Virginia concluded that it “remains a debatable means of reducing the pay gap between men and women.”
A federal appeals court ruling last Wednesday in San Francisco said there is no legal obligation to impose the comparable worth concept on a free labor market.
Comparable worth means paying men and women similar wages for different jobs judged to be of equal value.
The issue surfaced in Virginia in 1983 when the Virginia Commission on the Status of Women recommended that steps be taken to implement comparable worth compensation in state employment.
The 1984 assembly directed that the secretaries of administration and finance, Department of Planning and Budget and Department of Personnel and Training examine what changes would be needed to shift to such a program and what the price tag would be.
The study concluded a comparable worth approach would require abandoning the state’s equal pay for equal work concept, which pays men and women the same wage for doing identical jobs.
Replacing it would be a system in which dissimilar jobs would have to be given the same wage value. “This would require significant time and resources,” the study said.
Death sentence upheld
RICHMOND — The state had no obligation to pay for a psychiatrist to assist Lem Davis Tuggle Jr. in his capital murder trial, the Virginia Supreme Court said Friday in upholding his death sentence a second time.
Tuggle’s case gave the court its first major opportunity to review a death sentence under a Feb. 26 U.S. Su
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