Employment Appeal Tribunal (Scotland)

Here, the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld the appeal of the respondent employer and rejected a prior holding of the Edinburgh Employment Tribunal that found the respondent employer liable for having violated Section 1(3) of the Equal Pay Act for having given a male staff member a more favorable employment contract than two female co-workers and having done so without genuine, material, and sex-neutral factors accounting for this disparity.  The claimants in this appeal were two female employees of Scottish Enterprise, a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government focused

The claimants in this appeal were two female employees of Scottish Enterprise, a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government focused on economic development.  The women alleged that a male co-worker doing work of equal value had a more favorable employment contract, and that there were no genuine, material, and sex-neutral factors accounting for this disparity.  They alleged that their employer had violated Section 1(3) of the Equal Pay Act mandating the equal treatment of men and women in the same employment.  The Edinburgh Employment Tribunal found for the claim