The Industrial Cases Reports
[1980] ICR 429
[COURT OF APPEAL]
O'BRIEN
And Others
v.
SIM-CHEM LTD.
1979 Dec. 5,
6,
7,
10,
11,
12;
21
Stephenson, Waller and Cumming-Bruce L.JJ.
Discrimination, Sex
— Equal pay
— Evaluation study
— Scheme to remunerate employees in accordance with evaluation study and merit assessment schemes
— Evaluation study completed but not implemented
— Merit assessment scheme incomplete
— Whether women's remuneration determined by “rating of the work”
— Whether women entitled to equal pay as men in same grade
—
Equal Pay Act 1970 (c. 41), s. 1 (2) (b) (as amended by Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c. 65), s. 8)
Discrimination, Sex
— Equal pay
— European Economic Community
— Effect of Community law on municipal law
— Directive on equal pay for equivalent work
—
E.E.C. Treaty (Cmnd. 5179-II), art. 119
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E.E.C. Council Directive 75/117/E.E.C., art. 1