Geek alert!
by Philip
This case is for you if you are interested in the intricacies of how the Sex Discrimination Act works and its interplay with the Equal Pay Act.
Involving the long running (and local authority budget sapping) equal pay cases and the indefatigable Stefan Cross , the point in question was whether a section 77 claim under the Sex Discrimination Act could run in parallel with an Equal Pay claim in Tribunal.
For historians of the discrimination legislation, the judgement gives a concise potted history of the relevant law and considers the impact of the 1986 Sex Discrimination Act.
In essence section 77 allows a party to a contract to have it declared void if one of its terms is discriminatory. The contract in question was a collective agreement and the Trade Unions were a party to the litigation.
The EAT allowed the Tribunal to run the Sex Discrimination claim to run in parallel with the Equal Pay claim.
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