Equal pay: No six-year comparator bar to bringing equal pay claim
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Kells v Pilkington plc [2002] IRLR 693 EAT (2 other reports)
Key points
- In Kells v Pilkington plc 2.5.2002 EAT/1435/00, the EAT holds that there is no rule of law precluding an equal pay claimant from relying on the circumstances of his or her chosen comparator more than six years before the claim is brought, although there may be considerable evidential problems in showing that any pay differential is related solely to gender in such cases. It therefore sets aside the decision of an employment tribunal to strike out such a claim on the ground of frivolity.