The
recent decision of the Supreme Court to allow equal pay claims by former
employees of Birmingham Council to proceed notwithstanding the fact that they
were not brought within six months from the end of their employment looks set
to give Council bosses in the city a major financial headache at a time when
council budgets are already stretched to the bone.
In an important decision the
Court decided by a majority that the claims could be brought in the High Court
more than six months after the end of the claimants' employment when similar
claims would have been out of time in an employment tribunal. The Court also
commented that the reasons for a claimant's failure to bring a timely claim
were not relevant.
This could trigger substantial numbers of claims where
former employees discover perhaps some years after they have left a job that
their former colleagues have succeeded with equal pay claims.
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