Equal pay

New and updated

• Date:

  18 April 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  EAT upholds validity of compromise agreements preventing equal pay claims

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that compromise agreements preventing employees from bringing equal pay claims against a council are valid, even though the employees had been advised by solicitors engaged by the council. 

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Rebekah Martin, Carly Mather, Kate Edminson and James Buckley, all associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Judith Harris, legal director, James Buckley, associate, Dinu Suntook, associate, at Addleshaw Goddard detail the latest rulings.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Is an employer acting unlawfully if pay rates vary between employees who perform similar roles?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employee use their predecessor or successor as the comparator in an equal pay claim?

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  FAQs

  When recruiting to a vacancy can an employer offer a better salary than that offered to existing employees in order to attract candidates?

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  FAQs

  Do female employees who believe that they may have an equal pay claim have the right to be given information about their male counterparts' salaries?

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  FAQs

  Can an employer defend an equal value claim on the basis that it has carried out a job evaluation scheme?

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  FAQs

  For the purposes of an equal pay claim, can a woman compare their pay and conditions with those of any man?

• Type:

  FAQs

  For the purposes of an equal pay claim, how does the law interpret "like work" between a man and a woman?