The section required a study which necessitated the evaluation of both the complainant’s work and that of her male comparator. It was not good enough that the bench mark jobs had been evaluated if there had been no evaluation of the claimant’s and her comparators’ jobs in the process. In this sense the use of the description ‘analytical’ was not a gloss on the statutory provision but a convenient way of summarising the need for the study to value in terms of demand under various relevant headings, each worker’s job – not just some. It had to be shown not only that a job evaluation scheme had been carried out but also that it was a scheme which fulfilled the necessary criteria.
Citations:
[1987] UKEAT 97 – 87 – 2807, [1988] 2 CMLR 468, [1988] ICR 47, [1987] IRLR 456
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England and Wales
Employment, Discrimination
Updated: 09 July 2022; Ref: scu.248981