Hearings
Scotland
27 Nov 1986 [1987] AC 224; [1986] 3 WLR 1017; [1987] ICR 129; [1987] 1 All ER 65, HL(Sc)
Rainey v Greater Glasgow Health Board
Subject Matter
DISCRIMINATION, SEX — Equal pay — Variation due to material difference — Female prosthetist employed directly in National Health Service — Rate of pay lower than that offered to male prosthetists recruited from private contractors — Whether variation due to material difference other than sex — Equal Pay Act 1970, s 1(3) (as amended by Sex Discrimination Act 1975, s 8(1))
Appellate History
Rainey v Greater Glasgow Health Board [1985] IRLR 414
Decision of the First Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session affirmed
Rainey v Greater Glasgow Health Board [1987] AC 224; [1986] 3 WLR 1017; [1987] ICR 129; [1987] 1 All ER 65, HL(Sc)