Equal Pay

The Government has been working with the EOC to promote equal pay reviews and has provided trade unions with funding to train workplace representatives. An equal pay questionnaire procedure was introduced in  April 2003; and the Government has committed  to a target of 45% of large organisations having undertaken pay reviews by April 2008. 

New regulations introduced in October 2004 streamlined the complex rules of procedure relating to equal value cases with.   It has also been made easier for women and men to take up equal pay claims by simplifying and speeding up existing tribunal procedures.