It's the law: Equal pay: possible defences

By Emma Burrows, Third Sector, 7 May 2008

The fifth in a series on equal pay claims and how best to deal with them.

In my last article (Third Sector, 23 April), I discussed the need for charities to show 'genuine material factor' defences that can be objectively justified when defending equal pay claims. But what 'material factor' defences will be acceptable? One defence is that of market forces. As previously discussed, charities can...

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