Comments on: The Single Equalities Act http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2008/05/single-equalities-act.htm Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:02:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Richard Gadsden http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2008/05/single-equalities-act.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1089 Richard Gadsden Wed, 14 May 2008 21:13:00 +0000 http://localhost/wp28/?p=1720#comment-1089 One step you should look at on the road to equal pay is mandating that all pay scales should be on the basis of job evaluation.<br/><br/>It was the lack of JE that has resulted in the local authorities losing the series of equal value cases they have lost recently, and there are plenty of private sector employers that are storing up huge equal value cases because they won't evaluate all jobs on a single playing field. The fact that dinner ladies have been able to use binmen as comparators is emboldening equal value lawyers to try dismantling other pay structures. If employers have to value people on what they do instead of who they are, then that will help hugely to clear up discrimination. One step you should look at on the road to equal pay is mandating that all pay scales should be on the basis of job evaluation.

It was the lack of JE that has resulted in the local authorities losing the series of equal value cases they have lost recently, and there are plenty of private sector employers that are storing up huge equal value cases because they won’t evaluate all jobs on a single playing field. The fact that dinner ladies have been able to use binmen as comparators is emboldening equal value lawyers to try dismantling other pay structures. If employers have to value people on what they do instead of who they are, then that will help hugely to clear up discrimination.

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