{"id":6612,"date":"2018-02-07T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6612"},"modified":"2018-02-07T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T08:00:02","slug":"equal-pay-for-unequal-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/6612\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal Pay for Unequal Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can\u2019t see this<\/a> being successful:<\/p>\n

Tesco is facing Britain’s largest ever equal pay claim and a possible bill running to \u00a34bn.
\nThousands of women who work in Tesco stores could receive back pay totalling \u00a320,000 if the legal challenge demanding parity with men who work in the company’s warehouses is successful.
\nLawyers say hourly-paid female store staff earn less than men even though the value of the work is comparable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That lawyers think warehouse work is comparable with that in the shop floor doesn\u2019t surprise me: I doubt they have the slightest idea what either is like. \u00a0But doesn\u2019t the law say the work must be the same, not merely \u201ccomparable\u201d in a way defined by a lawyer?<\/p>\n

Paula Lee, of Leigh Day solicitors, the firm acting for up to 1,000 women who are likely to take test cases, told the BBC it was time for Tesco to tackle the problem of equal pay for work of equal worth.
\nThe most common rate for women is \u00a38 an hour whereas for men the hourly rate can be as high as \u00a311 an hour, she added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would imagine all Tesco need to is demonstrate there is equal pay between men and women working in the store, something which ought to be rather straightforward. What people – men or women – are paid in the warehouse, under different conditions which are easy to list, is irrelevant.<\/p>\n

I suspect the lawyers know this, but have decided to leap on the equal pay bandwagon to give themselves publicity, further the narrative, and maybe shake down Tesco in the process, who might not want the adverse publicity.<\/p>\n

That said, if the court ruling goes against Tesco, it may open the door for men working in warehouses to demand equal pay with the powerskirts loafing around in air-conditioned offices. But I think this will be thrown out long before then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can\u2019t see this being successful: Tesco is facing Britain’s largest ever equal pay claim and a possible bill running to \u00a34bn. Thousands of women who work in Tesco stores could receive back pay totalling \u00a320,000 if the legal challenge … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,79,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6613,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions\/6613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}