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- Date:
- 28 July 2008
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Trust v Bewley [2008] IRLR 588, the EAT held that the decision in Diocese of Hallam Trustee v Connaughton was fundamentally flawed and should not be followed.
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- Date:
- 10 March 2008
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Voss v Land Berlin C-300/06, the ECJ ruled that legislation under which overtime pay arrangements result in a part-timer being paid less overall than a comparable full-timer for the same number of hours potentially contravenes the principle of equal pay enshrined in art. 141 of the Treaty establishing the European Community.
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- Date:
- 13 November 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has held that, in assessing whether or not there is a difference in pay that disadvantages women, there is no requirement to focus only on the advantaged group.
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- Date:
- 29 October 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal ruled in Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge and others [2007] EWCA Civ 929 that a woman claiming equal pay may rely on a job evaluation study even where the woman's job has been assigned a higher value than that of her comparator.
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- Date:
- 2 October 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council v Anderson and others [2007] IRLR 715, the Court of Appeal has held that employees and their comparators who worked at different establishments, but whose contractual terms and conditions were derived from the same collective agreement, were in the same employment within the meaning of s.1(6) of the Equal Pay Act 1970.
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- Date:
- 11 July 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council v Derbyshire and others [2007] IRLR 504 HL, the House of Lords held that an employer that wrote to a number of equal pay litigants and their colleagues warning of potential job losses if they continued with their claims victimised them contrary to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.
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- Date:
- 27 June 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In 1) Bainbridge & Ors 2) Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v 1) Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council 2) Williams EAT/0424/06 & EAT/0031/07 the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that successful equal pay claims confer the right to up to six years' back pay prior to the institution of proceedings.
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- Date:
- 2 March 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This article looks at some of the significant judgments in the area of equal pay over the past year and their implications.
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- Date:
- 15 December 2006
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Cadman v Health and Safety Executive Case C-1705 ECJ, the European Court of Justice held that it is not necessary for an employer to justify use of length of service as a criterion for determining the pay of workers doing work of equal value unless a worker provides evidence that raises serious doubts as to its appropriateness as a basis for determining pay.
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- Date:
- 3 February 2006
- Type:
- Employment law cases
We review recent significant equal pay cases and their implications. Developments of note include the application of the "single source" test to comparators within an employment unit, and a reference to the ECJ on whether use of length of service as a pay system criterion requires specific objective justification.