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Amend the Equal Pay Act 1970; and to make provision about flexible working. |
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Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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1 | Amendment of the Equal Pay Act |
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(1) | The Equal Pay Act 1970 (c. 41) is amended as follows. |
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(2) | In section 1 (requirement of equal treatment for men and women in same |
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employment), before paragraph (a) insert— |
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“(za) | is objectively justified as reasonable;”. |
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(3) | After section 2 insert— |
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(1) | In the event that a court or employment tribunal finds that an employer |
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has contravened a term modified or included by an equality clause, the |
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employer shall be required to undertake an audit, to be known as an |
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equal pay audit, and to make the results of the audit available in the |
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(2) | In this section, “prescribed” means prescribed in regulations made by |
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2 | Statutory right to request contract variation: age of child |
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In section 80F(1)(b)(i) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18) (statutory |
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right to request contract variation), the following words are omitted— |
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(a) | “who has not reached the prescribed age or falls within a prescribed |
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3 | Short title and commencement |
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(1) | This Act may be cited as the Equal Pay and Flexible Working Act 2008. |
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