Key legal question
Whether the cantonally fixed salaries of primary teachers could be used as a comparison basis for a discrimination claim by municipal kindergarten teachers.
Extracted holding
No. Because the municipality was not the sole employer/ wage debtor for the primary teachers' salaries, the cantonally fixed and paid salaries could not serve as the relevant comparison benchmark.
Extracted reasoning
In 2005 the municipality was the sole employer of the kindergarten teachers, while the canton alone fixed and paid the primary teachers' salaries. Equal-pay comparison must generally be made within the same employer or a truly dependent wage system; the primary-teacher salary system was not attributable to the municipality.