Women taking employers to court reaches new high

[AB Asks]

The number of women taking their employers to court has reached record levels. The tribunal system is struggling to cope due to the sheer amount of cases � last year there were 240,000 cases. A large number of these were from female council and NHS workers. The rise has been put down to the no-win, no-fee law lawyers who promise to win pay rises and back-dated cash. What do you think? Is this something we should be concerned about? Or is good that these types of lawyers provide a service where a person never loses money?

[Gromit]

Here is the link that AB Ed failed to supply. From the bowels of the Daily Mail obviously.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=483004&in_page_i d=1770

[Gromit]

No-win No fee lawyers would not be taking on these cases if employers were not breaking the law, and if they were not winning the cases and earning fees. You can hardly blame the lawyers for winning cases. Culpability is with the employers who pay different sex employees different pay.

Hopefully, the employers, faced with legal challengers that are costing them money, will put their house in order, and it will be the litigation that wins equal pay rather than legislation that has not been properly enforced.

The fact that local councils and NHS trusts are two of the biggest breachers of equal pay is a disgrace.

[Goodsoulette]

Raggy when you have to go through the trauma of squeezing a baby out of your body and then breastfeed the baby on demand solely for 6 months then as a man you will be entitled to it. It takes 9 months to make a baby and at least that for a womans body to recover from it. I believe there are plans in the making to let fathers take half of the maternity leave instead of the mother.

Why should women get paid less for doing work o equal value? There is no reason.

[horsestache1]

Raggy, you are entitled to take peternity leave, should you so wish. You can also leave work and be a house husband and claim all the benifits a woman can claim. If you wish to adopt a child you may do so, again getting all the benifits.

[Reverandfunk]

As a single man with no kids I feel I am being persecuted because I don't get maternity or paternity leave

[jodie73]

Maternity leave is now 9 months as i am on it. But i don't think i can go back to work as my employer has made my job redundant, made me a new one with �8000.00 a year less than i was getting, and made my hours of work longer and impossible for me to do.

[jodie73]

I've asked ACAS for some advice which was helpful but i think i will look into it further. Thanks RR.

[MrBen5]

Hmmm, i dont think women should get paid the same as men in some jobs.
They get maternity leave and get days off when they want without any real questioning.
Also, it seems from reading another thread that most women spend all their time at work on the internet shopping, etc...

[meredith101]

As a woman I'll be the first to admit that there are differences between the sexes and men are better at some things (like management, spatial awareness, heavy labour, thinking) than women and shuld be payed more for them jobs.

[MrBen5]

Hmmm, i like you meredith :)

[Goodsoulette]

but then Meredith, how many women do those jobs? If they cant do them, then they shouldn't be employed to do that job. That's poor management.

and Mr Ben I have never had a day off work in my life without questioning. Still great to see the head of the women are inferior brigade is in here.

[meredith101]

Goodsoulette, maybe it was a woman that was in management at the time.

I don't think that he is saying that women is inferior he is just saying that they is not as superior as men there is a difference.

[Reverandfunk]

Soulette be a good girl and put the kettle on



sorry couldnt resist lol

[Goodsoulette]

Merdith, he's made it perfectly clear in the past that he thinks women are superior in some areas, make up, knitting and baking but thinks women should stay out o the news section as its not there business and they don't understand it.

If 2 people have the same job and work to the same standard then they should be paid the same. If someone cannot do the job because of the phsyical demands then they shouldn't be doing it.

To say that a woman is physically incapable is laughable. I know a woman who before the days of hoist and excessive health and safety measures was a nurse at a geriatric hospital. She had to lift heavy, dead weights all the time. I then saw this 9 stone woman beat my uncle at arm wrestle, he was a 16 stone copper.

Its about the person not the sex of that person.

[China Doll]

PMT has a lot to answer for eh?!

(I'd argue the toss but i really can't be bothered. Womans perogative and all that...)