Equal Pay: Three new cases you need to know about

Weightmans LLP | Employment Law Journal | November 2017 #185
Sam Harris reviews recent cases on whether a job evaluation scheme complied with the Equality Act, whether staff in different locations doing different work could compare their pay and whether multiple equal pay claims could be brought on a single claim form ‘Claimants working for large private sector organisations may be able to cast their …

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Equal Pay: Asda barred from forum shopping

Constantine Law | Employment Law Journal | October 2016 #174
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that a complex class action should be heard in the employment tribunal rather than the High Court, reports Christopher Tutton ‘The claimants, who are overwhelmingly (though not exclusively) female, work in hourly-paid jobs in the retail giant’s stores. They are claiming their jobs are of equal value to those …

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Legal News: Employment update

Hogan Lovells | Employment Law Journal | September 2016 #173
Jo Broadbent rounds up recent case law and developments affecting employers and their advisers ‘The future of the “dual discrimination” provisions in the Equality Act 2010 that have not been brought into force apparently remains under consideration.’ Bans on religious symbols in the workplace – direct or indirect discrimination? Bougnaoui v Micropole SA [2016] concerns …

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