Equal Pay in UK Law
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Pickstone v Freemans Plc
... ... House of Lords Lord Keith of Kinkel My Lords, ... 1 Under the Equal Pay Act 1970 , as brought into force with amendments on 29 December 1975, a woman employee could claim parity of pay with a male employee in the same ... ...
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Essop and Others v Home Office (UK Border Agency)
... ... of conscious or subconscious bias was upheld in the House of Lords, confirming the principle, established in R v Birmingham City Council, Ex p Equal Opportunities Commission [1989] AC 1155 and James v Eastleigh Borough Council [1990] 2 AC 751 , that no hostile or malicious motive is ... ...
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Rainey v Greater Glasgow Health Board
... ... of an industrial tribunal and of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, is concerned with the proper construction of certain provisions of the Equal Pay Act 1970 ... 2 The appellant, a woman, has since 1 October 1980 been employed by the respondent board at the Belvidere Hospital, Glasgow, as a ... ...
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Ashmore v British Coal Corporation
... ... 2,000 applications were made by women canteen workers employed in various parts of the country by the National Coal Board under section 1(2)(a) Equal Pay Act 1970 as amended (the Act). Proceedings were issued in the Birmingham Industrial Tribunal. The claimants alleged that they were doing like ... ...
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R (on the application of Unison) v Lord Chancellor
... ... Unfair dismissal claims, equal pay claims and discrimination claims are classified as type B. Type B claims generally require more judicial case management, more pre-hearings, and ... ...
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Litster v Forth Dry Dock and Engineering Company Ltd
... ... Communities Act 1972 the draft of certain Regulations designed, and presented by the responsible ministers as designed, to fill a lacuna in the equal pay legislation of the United Kingdom which had been identified by a decision of the European Court of Justice. On a literal reading the regulation ... ...
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Hashwani v Jivraj
... ... , age or sexual orientation as regards employment and occupation, with a view to putting into effect in the member states the principle of equal treatment." ... 7 The Regulations (as amended by section 77(2) of the Equality Act 2006) provide, so far as material, ... ...
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Garland v British Rail Engineering Ltd
... ... upon the true construction of section 6(4) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, but without any consideration being given to the fact that equal pay without discrimination on the grounds of sex is required by Article 119 of the E.E.C. Treaty and that the application of this Article had also ... ...
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Miller v Miller (Short Marriage: Clean break)
... ... 16 A third strand is sharing. This 'equal sharing' principle derives from the basic concept of equality permeating a marriage as understood today. Marriage, it is often said, is a partnership ... ...
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James v Eastleigh Borough Council
... ... But the truth is to the contrary. It is an important test case brought with the backing of the Equal Opportunities Commission in performance of their statutory functions under the Act. The phrase "pensionable age" is a term of art derived from the ... ...
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