Appeal bid over equal pay ruling – BBC News
“Thousands of men may have to wait for equal pay awards after a local authority said it was to challenge a landmark legal ruling.”
BBC News, 25th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: equal pay
Low-paid male council workers win right to equal pay with women – The Times
“More than 12,000 men in low-paid jobs won the right to bring equal pay claims alongside thousands of women in a landmark ruling yesterday.”
The Times, 25th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust v Hurst and Others; Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council v Arnold and Others – Times Law Reports
Court of Appeal
“It was sufficient when launching an equal pay claim to send a written statement of grievance to the employer identifying the issue as an equal pay claim.”
The Times, 28th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Law forces employers to reveal gender pay gap – The Independent
“Legislation being published today will require employers to reveal the ‘gender pay gap’ between male and female staff.”
The Independent, 27th April 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Compulsory audits on equal pay will force firms to give women more – The Times
“Companies will be forced by law to disclose how much they pay men compared with women in a surprise government move to narrow the pay gap.”
The Times, 24th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal widens rights to equal pay compensation – OUT-LAW.com
“Workers who are employed under an unbroken succession of contracts can now claim equal pay compensation for that string of contracts and not just the latest one, the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th April 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
Slack and Others v Cumbria County Council – Times Law Reports
Slack and Others v Cumbria County Council
Court of Appeal
“A variation in the terms of an employment contract between an employer and employee in a stable employment relationship did not terminate the preexisting contract so as to trigger the beginning of the six-month period allowed for initiating equal pay claims.”
The Times, 14th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Slack and others v Cumbria County Council (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) – WLR Daily
“The beginning of the period allowed for initiating an equal pay claim would not be triggered until the expiry of the stable employment between the employer and employee within the meaning of the section 2ZA of the Employment Act 1970. A new employment contract varying the term of an existing contract between the same employer and the same employee in a stable relationship did not terminate the existing contract so as to trigger the beginning of that period.”
WLR Daily, 6th April 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
£450m aid for councils struggling to find cash to settle 400,000 equal pay cases – The Times
“Emergency funding of £450 million will be given to town halls struggling to meet the cost of equal pay settlements for tens of thousands of low-paid women, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 26th September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Why do women solicitors earn less than men? – Law Society’s Gazette
“When Fiona Fitzgerald, chair of the Association of Women Solicitors, was preparing to launch the joint campaign with the Law Society on equal pay, she first checked her own firm’s record.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th September 2008
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Re-grading staff could beat discrimination claims, says Acas – OUT-LAW.com
“Employers should undertake job evaluation programmes to avoid being caught up in the escalating number of discrimination claims reaching Employment Tribunals, the Government’s dispute resolution service has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd September 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Allen and Others v GMB – Times Law Reports
Court of Appeal
“A trade union was not justified in indirectly discriminating against a number of female members in resolving gender-based pay inequalities among local authority employees.”
The Times, 1st September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Women win landmark equal pay battle – The Times
“Tens of thousands of women working for local councils and health authorities won the right to higher wages today following a landmark Court of Appeal ruling on equal pay laws.”
The Times, 29th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Equal pay: Unions face compensation claims of up to £100m – The Guardian
“Unions are facing the threat of a compensation bill for as much as £100m in the wake of an appeal court ruling that they broke the law by discriminating against women indirectly in the way they settled equal pay claims in local government.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Allen and others v GMB – WLR Daily
Allen and others v GMB [2008] EWCA Civ 810; [2008] WLR (D) 243
“The striking of a deal by a trade union with a local authority as to terms and conditions of employment pursuant to a national collective agreement establishing a ‘single status’ common pay and grading structure for all local authorities, which deal attempted to achieve compensation for some union members for past pay inequality as well as ongoing pay and employment protection for all members, was indirectly discriminatory since it constituted the application of a provision, criterion or practice which applied equally to men but was to the detriment of a considerably larger proportion of women than of men and since the means adopted by the union to persuade members to accept the deal, including mis-selling and manipulation, were not proportionate to the union’s legitimate aim of achieving single status with the minimum of losers.”
WLR Daily, 17th July 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Employers ‘should publish salaries to cut gender wage gap’ – Daily Telegraph
“Employers should disclose information about workers’ salaries to help narrow the pay gap between men and women, the Government will say today.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
The fight for equal pay … 40 years on – The Guardian
“In 1968, a walkout by a group of women machinists at Ford led to the Equal Pay Act. So why, four decades on, does a massive gender gap at all levels of earnings mean industrial tribunals are clogged up with cases?”
The Guardian, 1st June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Law Society and AWS launch two-year equal pay campaign – Legal Week
“The Law Society and the Association of Women Solicitors (AWS) are launching an equal pay campaign, after fresh research revealed significant salary inequalities within the profession.”
Legal Week, 29th May 2008
Source: www.legalweek.com
Women workers appeal over equal pay – The Times
“A test case that could affect thousands of low-paid women workers struggling to get the same pay as male colleagues began in the Court of Appeal today.”
The Times, 15th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
NHS faces landmark case on equal pay agreement – The Lawyer
“The NHS is facing a landmark test case that could pave the way for more than 800,000 equal pay claims, which will run parallel to recent high-profile claims against local authorities.”
The Lawyer, 14th January 2008
Source: www.thelawyer.com
