Highland Council v TGWU/Unison and Others: EAT 7 Dec 2007

EAT Equal Pay Act – Out of time
Equal pay claims and statutory grievance procedures. Whether claimants prevented by section 32(2) of the Employment Act 2002 from presenting complaints specifying different comparators from those (if any) specified in grievances. EAT held that Tribunals required to carry out a qualitative assessment to see if comparators in ETI were materially different from comparators in grievances.

Citations:

[2007] UKEAT 0020 – 07 – 0712

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Employment Act 2002 32(2)

Citing:

CitedShergold 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, Discrimination

Updated: 24 July 2022; Ref: scu.342117