Abstract
Equal pay for women did not become a relevant issue in the law of the United Kingdom until 1975. The Equal Pay Act (EPA) was introduced in 1970, but employers were given five years in which to implement equality, and so the Act came into force in 1975. While the normal applicant for equal pay will be a woman, obviously the rules of statutory interpretation apply and a man can sue for equal pay with a woman.
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Carty Equal Pay for Equal Work (1984) JSWL 1620.
Collins CCT, Equal Pay and Market Forces (1994) 23 ILJ 341.
Fredman Equal Pay and Justification (1994) 23 ILJ 37.
Lester and Rose Equal Value Claims and Sex Bias in Collective Bargaining (1991) 20 ILJ 630.
Kilpatrick Deciding When Jobs of Equal Value can be Paid Unequally (1994) 23 ILJ 163.
Ross Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Law in the UK and Europe: the Need for Coherence (1996) JSWFL 18(2) 147.
Ross Justifying Unequal Pay (1997) 26 ILJ 171.
Szyszczak Pay Inequalities and Equal Value Claims (1985) 48 MLR 1390.
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Lockton, D.J. (1999). Equal Pay. In: Employment Law. Macmillan Law Masters. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15002-1_6
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