EAT EQUAL PAY ACT – Case Management
Multiple equal pay claims – Lead cases – Problem caused by possibility that jobs done by lead Claimants or their comparators might have materially changed over the claim period – Held that it was a proper exercise of the Chairman’s discretion initially to limit the experts’ consideration to the facts as they stood at the date that the claims were presented and to defer consideration of the issues that might arise if it were subsequently alleged that the facts had been materially different at some earlier date within the claim period – General observations about the proper analysis of an equal pay claim extending over a period and about how cases involving alleged changes during that period may be case-managed (including whether it is necessary for a Tribunal to obtain an expert’s report in respect of the entire period, even where it is alleged that changes have occurred).
Citations:
[2008] UKEAT 0004 – 08 – 1704
Links:
Employment, Discrimination
Updated: 14 July 2022; Ref: scu.266972