§ 206(d) (2006) and the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. It comes to this Court after Plaintiff filed a complaint against the Government in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (“District Court”) on April 28, 2006, claiming violations of the Equal Pay Act, 29 U.S.C. This case arises from Plaintiff Marjorie Murtagh Cooke’s employment as Director of the Office of Marine Safety at the National Transportation Safety Board (“NTSB”) from 1997 to 2005. Lester, Jr., Assistant Director, United States Department of Justice, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., and Kathleen Silbaugh, National Transportation Safety Board, Of Counsel, for Defendant. Katsas, Assistant Attorney General, Jeanne E. Meredyth Cohen Havasy, with whom were Gregory G. Scott Oswald, with whom was Dave Scher, The Employment Law Group, PC, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff. National Transportation Safety Board, Office of Surface Transportation Safety In the United States Court of Federal Claims Murtagh Cooke her lost back pay and lost retirement benefits but also extended her damages back three years and doubled the award. In the opinion below, the court not only awarded Ms. Murtagh Cooke from receiving fair consideration” for a Senior Executive Service position.
Murtagh Cooke’s concerns about her pay differential demonstrated a reckless disregard of the Equal Pay Act’s requirements” and that the NTSB acted “deliberately and willfully in preventing Ms. Finding a willful violation and a lack of good faith, Judge Wheeler concluded that, ”the NTSB’s conduct in ignoring Ms. Murtagh Cooke’s numerous complaints to management went unanswered. Murtagh Cooke that her pay was less than all other modal office directors, all of whom were men.
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