Pay Equity & Occupational Mobility applies a legal standard to Workers
The verified issue-specific record applies the McDonnell Douglas employment-discrimination framework to people acting as workers.
- Relationship ID
relationship:v728:cfea162d106da5e21768- Direction
- ISSUE_TO_STAKEHOLDER_WITH_RECIPROCAL_RENDERING
- Type
- reltype:legal-standard-applies-to-role
- Evidence lane
- EXPLICIT_SUPPORT
- Geographic scope
- United States
- Temporal scope
- As of 2026-08-25
- First published
- v7.28
- Last changed
- v7.28
What the relationship means
A verified judicial holding supplies a bounded legal standard that expressly governs the named role in the issue-specific evidence record.
Issue: Pay Equity & Occupational Mobility · Stakeholder: Workers
Why it passed governance
A verified issue-specific record and its source expressly identify the stakeholder role and the legal relationship asserted by the selected type.
Admission rule: admission:v728:explicit-role-support. Exact role anchor: employment disparate-treatment framework.
Supporting evidence
McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Cornell Legal Information Institute; opinion authored by the U.S. Supreme Court · publication 1973 · retrieved 2026-08-24
Qualifications and limitations
The edge identifies a bounded employment-role legal standard; it does not establish coverage, adverse action, comparator evidence, causation, liability, remedy, union position, or a shared worker view.
Application outside the cited issue, role, jurisdiction, and source proposition requires separate evidence.
What this edge does not establish
It does not establish causation, a violation, liability, endorsement, affiliation, representation, political alignment, a shared stakeholder belief, exclusivity, or that omitted stakeholders are irrelevant.