The Industrial Cases Reports
[1979] ICR 785
[COURT OF APPEAL]
MACARTHYS LTD.
v.
SMITH
1979 May 22,
23,
24,
25;
July 19
July 19
Lord Denning M.R., Lawton and Cumming-Bruce L.JJ.
Discrimination
— Sex
— Equal pay
— “Like work”
— Comparison of work with predecessor's
— Whether comparisons required to be contemporaneous
— Reference to European Court of Justice
—
Equal Pay Act 1970 (c. 41), s. 1 (2) (as amended by Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c. 65), s. 8)
—
E.E.C. Treaty (Cmnd. 5179-II), art. 119