Gillespie and others v Northern Health and Social Services Board and others (No.2) [1997] IRLR 410 NICA
Reports relating to this case:
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Equal pay: Amount of maternity pay was adequate
- Date:
- 15 July 1997
In Gillespie and others v Northern Health and Social Services Board and others (No.2) and Todd v Eastern Health and Social Services Board and another, the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal rules that contractual maternity pay is adequate in terms of European Community equal pay law, and does not "jeopardise the purpose of maternity leave", if it is at least equivalent to statutory sickness benefit.
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Sick pay comparison rejected
- Date:
- 1 July 1997
In Todd v Eastern Health and Social Services Board and Gillespie v Northern Health and Social Services Board (No.2) (28 April 1997) EOR74B, the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal holds that contractual maternity pay cannot be compared with sickness and disability pay.
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Maternity exclusion from sick-pay scheme lawful
- Date:
- 1 June 1997
In Gillespie v Northern Health and Social Services Board (No.2); Todd v Eastern Health and Social Services Board the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal has held that a woman cannot bring an equal pay claim comparing her entitlement to maternity pay to a term in a man's contract relating to sick pay.
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Maternity pay referral to ECJ
- Date:
- 1 December 1993
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has been asked by the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal in Gillespie and others v various health boards and the Department of Health and Social Security to decide whether EEC law requires that a woman on maternity leave be given the same pay that she would have received if she had been working normally.
