The Industrial Cases Reports
[1980] ICR 573
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
O'BRIEN
And Others Appellants
And
SIM-CHEM LTD.
Respondents
1980 July 7,
8;
30
Lord Diplock, Viscount Dilhorne, Lord Salmon, Lord Russell of Killowen and Lord Keith of Kinkel
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)