The Industrial Cases Reports
[2004] ICR 378
Employment Appeal Tribunal
Health and Safety Executive
v
Cadman
2003 June 2,
3;
Oct 22
Oct 22
Judge Burke QC, Mr B Beynon and Miss S M Wilson
Discrimination
— Sex
— Equal pay
— Variation due to material difference
— Applicant paid less than male comparators
— Length of service reason for differential
— Reason having disparate impact on women
— Whether employer having to show objective justification for use of length of service
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Equal Pay Act 1970, s. 1(3) (as substituted by Equal Pay (Amendment) Regulations 1983 (SI 1983/1794), reg 2(2))