University of Pittsburgh can give long-serving professor a 20 percent pay cut, federal court says
The University of Pittsburgh can impose a 20 percent salary cut on a long-tenured grad school professor whose performance was consistently rated substandard, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit overturns a U.S. Western District Court judge’s order that restored the pay of Prof. Jerome McKinney.
The appeals court, in an opinion by Judge Cheryl N. Krause, found the university can pare McKinney’s pay because the prof has no constitutionally protected “property interest” in any specific salary level.
McKinney joined the university faculty in 1970 as a professor of public administration. He said in his lawsuit that he was the only black member of the faculty for the university’s graduate school of public and international affairs. His salary increases between 2006 and 2013 were “substantially smaller” percentage-wise than those granted white faculty members, he contended.
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