Employment Notes

UK: Tribunal ruling limits use of market forces as defence to equal pay claims

UK: outsourced workers could not claim equal pay with principal's employees

UK: new government guidance on positive action and ethnicity pay gap reporting

UK: tribunal orders bank to carry out and publish equal pay audit within 6 months, notwithstanding existing equal pay review process

UK: Supreme Court rules that equal pay comparators can be at a different establishment where their terms are not dependent on location

Spain: new regulations on equality plans and equal pay between men and women

UK: material factor defence to equal pay claim does not evaporate merely due to passage of time

UK: rulings on time limit for equal pay claims and duration of material factor defence

UK: new family-friendly rights proposed

UK: Court of Appeal confirms broad approach to permissible equal pay comparators and procedural requirements

The Court of Appeal has given two rulings in the long-running equal value claim against Asda, in both cases ruling on preliminary points in favour of the …

UK: Discrimination - tax treatment of compensation, zero hours claims, and equal pay comparators

In Pettigrew v HMRC the First Tier Tribunal has held that settlement payments made by reference to underpaid past earnings arising out of a claim of …

UK: EAT rules that clustering of women at low end of a pay grade was insufficient to establish indirect discrimination

The use of length of service as a criterion for pay may indirectly discriminate against women and therefore require objective justification to be lawful …