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   When did equal pay and sex discrimination come into force?

   • Such were the words spoken on the 29 December 1975 by the BBC's Ludovic Kennedy, on the day the equal pay and sex discrimination acts came into force. Why should a woman be more like a man? How the BBC announced the acts coming into force

   Battle of the sexes: 'Radical' laws reach 40th birthday

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   When did the Equal Pay Act come into force?

   • In 1970, the Labour Employment Minister Barbara Castle, who had backed the Ford sewing machinists, introduced the Equal Pay (No. 2) Bill. The Bill received Royal Assent on 29 May becoming the Equal Pay Act 1970 (EqPA). However, the Act did not come into force until 29 December 1975, the same day as the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SDA).

   50 years of the Equal Pay Act - The House of Commons Library

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   When was the Sex Discrimination Act enacted?

   • The 1975 Act applied to England, Wales and Scotland only, with a separate Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order enacted in 1976. The Act was radical in terms of its intentions and it was a landmark achievement that was highly necessary given the limitations of the Equal Pay Act (which simply made unequal pay for ’like work’ unlawful).

   Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the creation of the Equal Opportunities

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   Is equal pay based on sex discrimination?

   • Many argue that equal pay law is limited by women having to point to real contemporaneous comparators while sex discrimination claims can be based on hypothetical comparators. The Labour Government chose not to change these rules in the Equality Act 2010.

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   What is the Equal Pay Act 1970?

   • An Act to prevent discrimination, as regards terms and conditions of employment, between men and women. The Equal Pay Act 1970 (c. 41) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that prohibited any less favourable treatment between men and women in terms of pay and conditions of employment.

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   Who proposed the Equal Pay Act?

   • The act was proposed by the then Labour government, and was based on the Equal Pay Act of 1963 of the United States. It has now been mostly superseded by part 5, chapter 3 of the Equality Act 2010.

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   May 28, 2020 · The Bill received Royal Assent on 29 May becoming the Equal Pay Act 1970 (EqPA). However, the Act did not come into force until 29 December 1975, the same day as the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SDA). Development of the law. The EqPA provided a contract-based solution to the issue of unequal pay.

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   Feb 27, 2013 · The Equality Act 2010 includes provisions that ban age discrimination against adults in the provision of services and public functions. The ban came into force on 1 October 2012 and it is...

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   The EOC, similarly, came into being on 29 December 1975, with statutory powers to enforce the Sex Discrimination Act, the Equal Pay Act and related legislation. Based in Manchester, the first chair was Baroness Betty Lockwood and the deputy was Lady Elspeth Howe.

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   Dec 29, 2015 · When the equal pay and sex discrimination acts were implemented in the UK, both were hailed as radical new legislation that would alter women's pay and workplace status.

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   The Equal Pay Act came into force, the Sex Discrimination Act was passed, women obtained legal protection in employment in regards to maternity leave and pregnancy discrimination, and the European Commission Directive on Equal Pay adopted the principle of ‘equal value’.

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   The Act came into force on 29 December 1975. The term pay is interpreted in a broad sense to include, on top of wages, things like holidays, pension rights, company perks and some kinds of bonuses.

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   1975 was a turning point for workplace equalities legislation, with the Equal Pay Act coming into force, and the... Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the creation of the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) The Sex Discrimination Act was enacted in 1975. Term ‘sexual harassment’ imported from USA.