EHRC: 'the Equal Pay Act has reached its sell-by date'

The chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has warned that the almost 40 year-old Equal Pay Act has ‘reached its sell-by date’ and should be scrapped in favour of modern legislation to get women a fair deal quickly.

Trevor Philips has warned that unless there is radical change in approach, the tribunal system may come crashing down and hundreds of thousands of women trying to get justice may be made to wait for an ‘intolerably long time’.

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