Kansas Gas & Electric Co. v. Brock, Secretary of Labor, Et Al.

comparing female cashier fired for cash shortage after several prior warnings with a male in a different job category | “[S]ection 5851 of the ERA states that exclusive jurisdiction in employment discrimination matters is vested by Congress in the Secretary of Labor” | summary judgment against plaintiff who could not show anything beyond her “general interest in obtaining some other job” | two employees are not similarly situated when the offense each is accused of is not comparable | Justices White, Blackmun, and O'Connor dissenting from the denial of certiorari | “It is a basic tenet of statutory construction that if statutory language is clear and unambiguous on its face then it must be given its plain meaning and no resort to the underlying legislative history is appropriate.” | protection under Energy Reorganization Act’s whistle-blower provision