Equal pay: No comparison permitted between former council staff and existing employees
This report relates to 1 case(s)
An employment tribunal had correctly concluded that former council employees working for a contractor providing contracted-out services could not compare themselves with existing council staff doing work that had previously been found to be of equal value to their own, holds the EAT in Lawrence and others v Regent Office Care and others [1999] IRLR 148. While Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome does not limit permissible comparisons to those employed by the same employer, the applicant and comparator in an equal pay claim must nevertheless "in a loose and non-technical sense be in the same establishment or service".