On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 21:37:55 +0100, Jean wrote: >We have a minimum wage, which is the same for both men and women, and a lot >of companies just pay that. Where men and women do the same job and don't >get paid the same, the employers usually have a different job title for what >the women are doing even though it's the same job as the men, e.g. male >chefs get paid more than women cooks; male sales consultants get paid more >than women sales assistants.
I don't dispute that this happens, but it is illegal in UK. Our law is equal pay for equal work - not the same work but work of equal skill. One well known example is Ford UK. Ford employed women to sew car upholstery. The women took Ford to court, arguing that they were doing work of equal skill to the men doing engineering tasks on the production line, and won. They received not only extra wages for the time that they were underpaid, but also damages. Most UK employers don't want the hassle and bad publicity of a case so they obey the law on pay, but find other more subtle ways to discriminate. -- We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden Steph Peters, Manchester, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
