September 6, 2007...12:59 pm
Some Are More Equal Than Others
A 155% increase in equal pay legal cases over the past year has seen the British tribunal system struggle to cope with the workload. The equal pay act of the 1975 has hardly brought equality of pay to the workplace other than in the public sector where the pay difference between men and women is now only 0.7%.
A Private Matter.
Outside of the public sector things start to get a little shakier as the Chartered Management Institute published their own figures showing a widening of the gape to 12.2%. Worse still is the food and drinks industry where male managers earn a whopping 46% more than their female counterparts. Human resources too ironically shows a 40% pay disparity.
Updating The Legislation
The dated legislating is made worse in that it’s the women themselves who have to initiate a legal claim and much like unfair dismissal cases can end up in the middle of a lot of mud slinging and character assassination attempts as government has increasingly sat on the fence. Common sense would show that new legislation is required though it seems that government today takes the view that the private sector is none of its business and is content to tolerate that sector’s norms of equality.
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2 Comments
September 6, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Yeeesssss…. it’s not great, is it?
September 6, 2007 at 9:57 pm
But they promised that “the market” would sort everything out. Except equality. I heard estimated a few months ago that at this rate it would take another 45 years before parity. Today that has been revised to 80 years. You’ve got to laugh haven’t you (or you’ll cry).
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