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The Covent Garden HR Buddies is an initiative facilitated by Clarkslegal to offer the London HR community the opportunity to meet with like-minded peers, attend relevant seminars and workshops and boost your knowhow of the issues specific to this sector.
 
It’s free and open to anyone interested in HR. It sets its own agenda, so it can be purely social or facilitate presentations to help prevent HR problems for companies in the London area. So if you want to network face to face contact
buddy@clarkslegal.comClick here for further details about our next HR Buddies event.  

If, alternatively, you wish to network online with other HR professionals, then using the discussion forum below, is your ideal opportunity to do so.

Please feel free to post new queries or questions, and/or reply to ones already posted. All you have to do is register a few details, then you will be ready to post your thoughts.

You can post a new query by selecting the tab "new thread". To reply to a post, select that post and then choose the "reply" tab.

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Sarah_Ireland
38 posts
www.employmentbuddy.com
Joined
10/2/2006

Equal Pay
Posted: 14 May 07 11:13 AM
This week Buddy was asked: Can a letter be sent to an equal pay claimant warning them of the consequences of their ongoing equal pay claim?
Kate_Atkinson
99 posts
Joined
1/4/2006

Re: Equal Pay
Posted: 21 May 07 12:16 PM Modified By Kate_Atkinson  on 5/21/2007 12:19:42 PM)

Buddy says: no, any forceful and intimidating letters sent by an employer to equal pay claimants can amount to victimisation.

 

Employer information: The House of Lords in St Helens Borough Council v Derbyshire and others [2007] UKHL 16, held that the employer had victimised the claimants when letters were sent warning them that they may be responsible for the loss of their colleague’s jobs if they won their claims.

 

Although the House of Lords acknowledged that the employer was entitled to try to settle the claims, they stated that the employer had over stepped the mark, going beyond an ‘honest and reasonable’ means of protecting their interest and had subjected the claimants to a detriment.

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