Tribunal update: Need to offer potential new recruit competitive salary was genuine material factor

HR & Compliance Centre provides a summary of an interesting recent employment tribunal ruling involving:

• the employer's successful argument in an equal pay case that a difference in pay between the female claimant and a newer male recruit was caused by its need to offer him a competitive salary to get him to take the job. 

Would you like to read case reports on a particular area of employment law? If so, please email employment law editor Stephen Simpson. 

Also

In the employment tribunals Access the HR & Compliance Centre archive of tribunal decisions, as well as longer round-ups of cases on a particular topic. 

Employment tribunal decisions 29.04.13 to 05.05.13: Police force defends "shambolic" but not discriminatory redeployment exercise A round-up of links to stories about employment tribunal rulings reported in the week beginning 29 April 2013, during which a tribunal rejected an age discrimination claim by a police officer who left after being chosen for redeployment, despite the tribunal describing the police force's cost-cutting exercise as "shambolic".