Dumfries and Galloway Council v North

Subject Matter

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 comparators doing their jobs at schools — Whether comparators in “same employment” — Equal Pay Act 1970, s 1(6) (as amended by Sex Discrimination Act 1975, Sch 1, para 1(1))

[2009] ICR 1363, EAT(Sc)

[2013] UKSC 45; [2013] ICR 993; [2013] 4 All ER 413; [2013] WLR (D) 264; Case details; 2013 SC (UKSC) 298, SC

EMPLOYMENT — Equal pay claim — Female teaching assistants and nursery nurses selecting male groundsmen and refuse collectors as comparators — Whether comparators to be treated as in “same employment” for purposes of legislation

[2011] CSIH 2; 2011 SLT 203; 2011 SC 372, Ct of Sess

STATUTE — Construction of sec 1(6) of Equal Pay Act 1970 — Whether test of “real possibility” of male comparators working at same establishment as female comparators required by sec 1(6) — Equal Pay Act 1970 (cap 41), sec 1(6)

[2011] CSIH 2; 2011 SLT 203; 2011 SC 372, Ct of Sess

EMPLOYMENT — Equal pay — Same employment — Comparator neither employed under same terms and conditions nor in same establishment

[2013] UKSC 45; [2013] ICR 993; [2013] 4 All ER 413; [2013] WLR (D) 264; Case details; 2013 SC (UKSC) 298, SC

Appellate History

Commentary

UKSC Blog
Case Comment: North v Dumfries and Galloway Council (Scotland) [2013] UKSC 45 [2013] Cas Com 5