I believe Julia has just cause to file an EEOC Complaint and possibly a lawsuit after six years of stellar performance as a counselor with a Masters of Social Work (MSW) degree due to being equally compensated with similarly credentialed newly hired inexperienced male counterparts (Bernardin & Russell, 2013). The Equal Pay Act (EPA) requires equal wages for men and women performing substantially the same job based on the skill, effort, and responsibility required to do the job in question. However, due to Julia supervising graduate student interns, dependent upon the frequency of this activity, the amount of Julia’s time this task consumes and/or the scope of Julia’s responsibility related to this task, an attorney could easily argue that Julia
