Holiday and sick pay variation justified

In Farrer v J Tomlinson & Son Ltd a Leeds employment tribunal (Chair: J M Q Hepworth) upholds the employer's genuine material factor defence and rejects a claim by a male joiner that he was entitled to the same terms relating to holiday pay, sick pay and lay-off, as his comparator, a female secretary employed on work of equal value.

Mr Farrer, a joiner, was engaged by the respondent at the end of 1989.