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Equal pay case won by two women

Jonathan Winston Jonathan Winston
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Two women in Scotland have won an equal pay employment tribunal case.

Mairi Buchanan and Pat Holland have both been paid around £10,000 less per year than a male colleague for a total of eight years when they were employed as customer services managers at Skills Development Scotland.

The three were transferred to their new positions from Careers Scotland but the male colleague was granted a higher starting salary and subsequent pay rises led to him being paid £10,000 more for doing the same job as the two women.

The employment tribunal found that under the Transfer of Undertakings (protection of Employment) regulations 1981, Scottish Enterprise was obliged to honour early pay increases to the man but was not obliged to continue to increase his salary. The tribunal also found discrepancies in performance related pay bonuses.

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