Equal pay

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• Date:

  28 June 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: Equal pay

  This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers equal pay.

• Date:

  1 February 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Chris McAvoy, Sarah Wade, David Rintoul, Helen Corbett and Kristin Aarvik are associate solicitors at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  28 November 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Female local authority workers employed on "common terms and conditions" with male comparators

  The Court of Session has held that a group of administrative and clerical female workers making equal pay claims against a local authority were on "common terms and conditions" with a group of male manual workers who were based in different locations. 

• Date:

  1 October 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Claire Benson is managing associate and Caroline Jacobs and Chris McAvoy are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  1 September 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Claire Benson is managing associate and Caroline Jacobs and Chris McAvoy are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  19 July 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Equal pay: employer not obliged to close pay gap following TUPE transfer

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employer's compliance with the TUPE legislation to preserve existing contractual terms and conditions that results in a disparity in pay can amount to a genuine material factor that may provide a defence to an equal pay claim. 

• Date:

  16 May 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Equal pay: "same source" of terms and conditions

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has considered the circumstances in which the terms and conditions of employees derive from the "same source" as their comparators for the purposes of the Equal Pay Act 1970. 

• Date:

  18 April 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  EAT upholds validity of compromise agreements preventing equal pay claims

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that compromise agreements preventing employees from bringing equal pay claims against a council are valid, even though the employees had been advised by solicitors engaged by the council. 

• Date:

  1 April 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Rebekah Martin, Carly Mather, Kate Edminson and James Buckley, all associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

• Date:

  1 March 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Judith Harris, legal director, James Buckley, associate, Dinu Suntook, associate, at Addleshaw Goddard detail the latest rulings.