Question: true or false? 1. The Bennett Amendment (703(h)) to Title VII prohibits employers from differentiating in compensation on the basis of sex where such differentiation
true or false?
1. The Bennett Amendment (703(h)) to Title VII prohibits employers from differentiating in compensation on the basis of sex where such differentiation would be authorized under the Equal Pay Act, 29 U.S.C. 206(d).
2. Gilbert and Nashville Gas remain good law.
3. The Supreme Court has held that 701(k) prohibited an employer from providing less health insurance coverage for the pregnancy-related medical expenses of the spouses of its male employees than it provided for either the pregnancy-related expenses of its female employees or for nonpregnancy-related medical expenses of its employees' spouses.
4. Employers are under no Title VII obligation to provide dependent benefits, and would not violate 701(k) by providing benefits only for employees and not their spouses.
5. States are not barred from giving special protection to disability due to pregnancy because Congress intended the PDA to be a floor beneath which pregnancy disability benefits may not dropnot a ceiling above which they may not rise.
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