The Industrial Cases Reports
[1980] ICR 672
[EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE]
MACARTHYS LTD.
v.
SMITH
(Case 129/79)
[COURT OF APPEAL]
1980 Jan. 30;
Feb. 28;
March 27
1980 April 17
Feb. 28;
March 27
1980 April 17
Judge H. Kutscher (President), Judges A. O'Keeffe and A. Touffait (Presidents of Chambers), J. Mertens de Wilmars, P. Pescatore, Lord Mackenzie Stuart, G. Bosco, T. Koopmans and O. Due F. Capotorti (Advocate General) 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