The Weekly Law Reports
[1999] 1 WLR 1465
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
BARRY
Appellant
and
MIDLAND BANK PLC.
Respondents
1999 April 27,
28;
July 22
July 22
Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Steyn, Lord Hoffmann and Lord Clyde
Discrimination
— Sex
— Equal pay
— Severance payment
— Employee with 11 years' full-time service returning part-time after maternity leave
— Scheme basing severance payment on termination salary
— Whether discriminatory
— Whether variation due to material difference other than sex
—
Equal Pay Act 1970 (c. 41), s. 1(1)(2)(b)(3) (as amended by Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c. 65), s. 8(1) and Equal Pay (Amendment) Regulations 1983 (S.I. 1983 No. 1794), reg. 2(2))
—
E.E.C. Treaty, art. 119
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