There are a number of factors that go into deciding who ultimately should be considered as similarly situated employees. Some of the criteria that courts will look to are, did you hold the same job title? Do you have the same supervisor? Do you have the same job responsibilities? How long have you and the other employee been at the company? Those are the main factors that they’re going to look into to see whether or not that person should qualify as a similarly situated employee. That’s important because it’s a key tool in proving employment discrimination to be able to point to somebody. Let’s say it’s a woman who believes she’s been discriminated against to be able to point to a similarly situated man who’s been treated better. That’s going to go a long to showing that you were discriminated against at work.
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