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CORNING GLASS WORKS v. BRENNAN
Supreme Court of United States (1974) | 417 U.S. 188; 94 S.Ct. 2223; 41 L.Ed.2d 1
TL;DR: An employer paid male night-shift inspectors more than female day-shift inspectors for identical work. The Supreme Court held this violated the Equal Pay Act, finding that time of day is not a "working condition" but a factor the employer failed to justify as being non-sex-based.
Legal Significance: Established that under the Equal Pay Act, "working conditions" refers to physical surroundings and hazards, not time of day. An employer cannot cure a historical, sex-based pay disparity by merely opening the higher-paid jobs to the discriminated class without equalizing the base wages.