Equal Pay : Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:10 pm  

Looks like the time limit for equal pay claims has just been extended to six years: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/35f20504-1db9 ... z2AElpNn17 The public purse is on stand-by for an absolute battering!

Looks like the time limit for equal pay claims has just been extended to six years: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/35f20504-1db9 ... z2AElpNn17 The public purse is on stand-by for an absolute battering!

Re: Equal Pay : Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:40 pm  

The Video Ref wrote: Looks like the time limit for equal pay claims has just been extended to six years: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/35f20504-1db9 ... z2AElpNn17 The public purse is on stand-by for an absolute battering! The alternative being that it's OK to financially discriminate on the grounds of sex? If Birmingham CC, other councils and many private companies hadn't made provision for such a judgement, then it is they who are to blame. Similarly, if they hadn't practised discrimination in the first place, there wouldn't be such a palaver now. The councillors involved should have their assets seized, it's not that unusual

The Video Ref wrote: Looks like the time limit for equal pay claims has just been extended to six years: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/35f20504-1db9 ... z2AElpNn17 The public purse is on stand-by for an absolute battering! The alternative being that it's OK to financially discriminate on the grounds of sex? If Birmingham CC, other councils and many private companies hadn't made provision for such a judgement, then it is they who are to blame. Similarly, if they hadn't practised discrimination in the first place, there wouldn't be such a palaver now. The councillors involved should have their assets seized, it's not that unusual

Re: Equal Pay : Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:29 pm  

No dispute as to the equal pay point.

The issue is that, by extending the time limit from 6 months in the ET to 6 years in the courts, the floodgates of litigation may have been well and truly opened. Cases will no doubt be launched by ex employees against employers who thought any such claims were long time-barred.

Employment lawyers will be rubbing their hands with glee.

Re: Equal Pay : Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:45 pm  

The Video Ref wrote:

No dispute as to the equal pay point.

The issue is that, by extending the time limit from 6 months in the ET to 6 years in the courts, the floodgates of litigation may have been well and truly opened. Cases will no doubt be launched by ex employees against employers who thought any such claims were long time-barred.

Employment lawyers will be rubbing their hands with glee.

Remember that unlike an employment tribunal if you lose in court you usually have to pay costs and the cost to take a case to court would bar lost of spurious claims.

Re: Equal Pay : Thu Oct 25, 2012 5:24 am  

The Video Ref wrote:

No dispute as to the equal pay point.

The issue is that, by extending the time limit from 6 months in the ET to 6 years in the courts, the floodgates of litigation may have been well and truly opened. Cases will no doubt be launched by ex employees against employers who thought any such claims were long time-barred.

Employment lawyers will be rubbing their hands with glee.

What many are conveniently forgeting is that taking an employment discrimination case through the courts, as opposed to an industrial tribunal, has always been an option. As I found out to my cost around ten years ago.

Re: Equal Pay : Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:55 am  

I'm all for equal pay for equal work. But, that should mean taking account of, for example, time wasted talking and going to the toilet. Men are probably underpaid relative to women taking those things into account.

Re: Equal Pay : Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:30 am  

Why do women at Wimbledon get the same prize money when they potentially play 66% of what the men play?

Am all for equal pay but for when the work is equal.

Re: Equal Pay : Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:47 pm  

Dally wrote:

I'm all for equal pay for equal work. But, that should mean taking account of, for example, time wasted talking and going to the toilet. Men are probably underpaid relative to women taking those things into account.

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Re: Equal Pay : Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:59 pm  

Equal pay should be a given if it is the same job - problem is if you have pay bands so 25,000-27,500 how do you pay for greater ability/experience within that band. Given some of this will be subjective how do you reward correctly without claims of discrimination?

The biggest discrimination of all is the pensionable age - why is this not the same for both sexes?

Re: Equal Pay : Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:07 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

Equal pay should be a given if it is the same job - problem is if you have pay bands so 25,000-27,500 how do you pay for greater ability/experience within that band. Given some of this will be subjective how do you reward correctly without claims of discrimination?

The biggest discrimination of all is the pensionable age - why is this not the same for both sexes?

Thought it was now