New Employment Legislation or the Tribunal System will Implode

Equal pay claims have risen drastically in the last two years, raising questions over whether the legal system can cope with the deluge of claims flooding the courts. Particularly badly affected are the NHS and public sectors, but employment lawyers predict the private sector will start to feel the pain in the not too distant future.
Among the factors leading to an increase in equal pay claims, the upsurge of 0no win no fee0 solicitors has been blamed by a top trade union official as a core concern.
Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, has laid the blame at the feet of lawyers, saying: 0no win no fee solicitors are finding equal pay claims a very lucrative bandwagon.0
As it currently stands in Britain there is a 17% gap between men and women working fulltime and 38% when working part time. But current law only provides for equal pay rights where the difference in pay is due to sexual discrimination.
From April 06 to March 07 there were just under one quarter of a million claims accepted by the employment tribunals - up from just over 156,081 during the same period in 04/05. Equal pay accounted for 44,013 claims having […]

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