Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court violated Art. 12 LEg by refusing the requested expert report on alleged salary discrimination and equal-value work.
Extracted holding
Because equivalence of the compared functions was not obvious and no other evidence established it, the refusal to order an expert report violated Art. 12(2) LEg.
Extracted reasoning
Cantonal courts have an extended duty to investigate under Art. 343(4) CO via Art. 12(2) LEg; if equal value is not self-evident, they must generally take expert evidence unless it would clearly be useless.