Questão jurídica principal
Whether the franken-based transition to the new salary system constituted indirect sex discrimination under Art. 4 aBV / Art. 8(3) BV and Art. 3 GlG.
Decisão extraída
No indirect discrimination was shown: the conversion rule was gender-neutral, did not affect women significantly more than men, and was objectively justified by the need to keep the salary reform financially feasible.
Fundamentação extraída
The court distinguished function grading from individual experience-step assignment and held that the conversion created artificial experience years without changing the underlying function assessment. It further found that the overall proportion of women and men affected did not reach the threshold of a significant disparate impact, and in any event the measure was justified by the legitimate and necessary objective of a cost-limited salary reform.