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higher pay'. ence' LOW PAY 1975 shows that while per cent of earned less than £56.20. Employers were given five years in which to avoid the Equal Pay employers ignored completely. A recent Others rallied round the banner KS - regrade, Employers have walked un- successful. impeded through the loophole which allows exemption from where there is "material difference' in the job.
of Hellerman Deutsch Ltd, for instance, the female viewer was removed to comply with the Act - but their male counterparts retained their previous staff status, although this was no longer a real difference A Tribunal ruled on this case that, "This was an anomaly the firm had to cope with, and was a genuine material difference allowing the men to retain their Women at the Glen Alva textile company in Scotland also lost a claim for equal payment of day rates on the grounds that the men's night work 'constituted' a genuine material differThe Tribunal found that, 'as a generalisation, stores is the sort of work a woman cannot do as well as a man'. She lost her job. wearing min.
The New Incomes Survey of male earnings averaged E60.80, 10 women earned less than £23 and 90 per cent these fronts, Bound by Callaghan, are unwilling With examples like these, it is not surprising that women have time in the buyers' department got little joy from the Tribunals.
report by the print discovered that her union, SOGAT, shows that 139 cases have been dismissed by the Tribunals and only 55 have been REDUNDANCY When the equal pay legislation was introduced, employers received gudelines from management consultants and the Department of Employment.
Among the suggestions was 'the nities reorganisation of work or reducing dependency on unskilled female labour by automation'.
For many women equal pay has meant the dole queue. Recently a Tribunal accepted the redundancy of a woman capstan operator at Meggitt Engineering Ltd, stating that "redundancy time rate was the same as the previous female rate.
A woman clerk working partHeadway Shopfitting Ltd job was reorganised to a full-time post requiring lifting of heavy weights, overtime and driving.
The Sex Discrimination Act has turned out to be more of the same. Seventy-three per cent of SDA applications to Tribunals were lost in the tirst six month of the legislation. A recent survey of 40 major companies by the Equal Pay and OpportuCampaign showed that only one-third of them had any equal opportunities policy, less than a quarter had made changes in the area of training, promotion and fringe benefits, and only a third were monitoring to investigate whether present procedures onsCs Tomate against WOHICH