COM'N FOR HUMAN RIGHTS v. DEPT. OF ADMIN.

No. 3619.

796 P.2d 458 (1990)

ALASKA STATE COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, Janet L. Bradley, Executive Director, ex rel. Laurel Beamer, Mary Ann Berry, Elinore Jacobsen, Kathryn Kindt, Mary Ann Laroe, Janet Lokken, Eileen Maki, Vernellia Randall-Phillips, Dorothy Straub, Janice Todd, Constance Trollan, and a Class of Public Health Nurse I's and II's, Appellants, v. STATE of Alaska, DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION, and Department of Health and Social Services, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

July 27, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Ertischek, Alaska State Commission for Human Rights, Anchorage, for appellants.

Susan D. Cox, Asst. Atty. Gen., Juneau, and Douglas B. Baily, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Garen E. Dodge, McGuiness & Williams, Washington, D.C., and Parry Grover, Davis, Wright & Jones, Anchorage, for amicus curiae Equal Employment Advisory Council.

Richard G. Haggart, Maloney & Haggart, Anchorage, Paul F. Mickey, Jr. and Ellen M. Jakovic, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Women's Legal Defense Fund, National Committee on Pay Equity, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Americans for Democratic Action, B'Nai B'Rith Women, Center for Women Policy Studies, Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO, Federally Employed Women, Inc., Humboldt County Public Employees' Ass'n, AFSCME Local 1684, Industrial Union Dept., AFL-CIO, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, AFL-CIO, National Ass'n of Commissions for Women, National Ass'n of Social Workers, Inc., National Institute for Women of Color, NC Equity, New England Health Care Employees Union Dist., 1199 SEIU, 9 to 5, National Ass'n of Working Women, Organization of Pan Asian American Women, Service Employees Intern. Union, AFL-CIO, CLC, United Food & Commercial Workers Intern. Union, AFL-CIO, CLC, Women Employed, and Women on the Job, a Project of Resources for Program Development, Inc.

Before MATTHEWS, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, BURKE, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

This case involves the interpretation of AS 18.80.220(a)(5), specifically the meaning of the phrase "work of comparable character." At a hearing following a complaint by a group of public health nurses, the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights (HRC) interpreted AS 18.80.220(a)(5) to require equal pay for jobs of comparable value to the employer. The superior court reversed the decision on appeal. We affirm in part and remand...

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