The Industrial Cases Reports
[2009] ICR 1363
Employment Appeal Tribunal: Scotland
Dumfries and Galloway Council v North and others
UKEATS/47/08
2009 April 23,
24;
May 25
May 25
Lady Smith
Discrimination— Sex— Equal pay— Same employment— Claimants employed at council schools— Male comparators employed at council depots under different collective agreement— Whether comparison permissible where no possibility of man doing comparators’ jobs at schools— Whether comparators in “same employment”—
Equal Pay Act 1970 (c 41), s 1(6) (as amended by Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c 65), Sch 1, para 1(1))