Key legal question
Whether the city physiotherapists were discriminated against by being placed one to two salary classes below comparable city police officers from 1997 to 2002.
Extracted holding
Yes. The physiotherapists' work was of equal value to the police comparison function, and the lower salary grading was discriminatory.
Extracted reasoning
The court accepted the comparability of city and cantonal functions, upheld reliance on prior workplace assessments, and held that differences in grading were not justified by the work itself.