arnold_sandwellEAT2008
EAT JURISDICTIONAL POINTS: 2002 Act and pre-action requirements
These appeals raise the issue what detail needs to be provided in an equal pay case when an employee raises a written grievance as required by the first step in the statutory standard grievance procedure set out in paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Employment Act 2002. The EAT held that the information can be minimal and need state no more than that the claim is a claim under the Equal Pay Act (which was all the information in fact given in the Sandwell case.)
Observations on the proper approach to the construction of paragraph 6.
[2008] UKEAT 0332 – 08 – 0611
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Citing:
Cited – The Highland Council v TGWU and Unison EAT 3-Jun-2008
EAT EQUAL PAY ACT: Equal value
Equal Pay claims. Whether letters sent to local authority employers by unions prior to coming into force of the statutory grievance procedures met the requirements of regulation . .
Cited – Shergold v Fieldway Medical Centre EAT 5-Dec-2005
The claimant had submitted a grievance complaining in general terms of the way in which she had been treated by a manager. She did not, however, refer to a particular incident relied on in her pleading as one of the two ‘last straw’ incidents that . .
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Employment
Updated: 01 November 2021; Ref: scu.277571