Abstract
The Equal Pay Act 1970 provides a right to equal pay for ‘like work’, defined by s.1(4) as work which is ‘the same’ or of a ‘broadly similar nature’, and a right to equal pay for ‘work rated as equivalent’, defined by s.1(5) as where the jobs compared ‘have been given an equal value, in terms of the demand made on a worker under various headings (for instance effort, skill, decision) on a study undertaken with a view to evaluating in those terms the jobs to be done by all or any of the employees in an undertaking or group of undertakings’.
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C. A. Larsen, ‘Equal pay for women in the United Kingdom’, International Labour Review, vol. 103, no. 1, January 1971, p. 3.
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Rubenstein, M. (1984). The Legislative Context. In: Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07547-8_3
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