Birmingham City Council

Case Summary

Three claimants (two women and one man) brought equal pay claims comparing their work as Business Advisers with Account Managers at the Growth Hub operated by Birmingham City Council. The tribunal found the claimants were not employed on work equal to that of their opposite-sex comparators and dismissed all claims on the substantive 'like work' ground. Additionally, the tribunal determined that claims relating to periods before certain dates would fail on jurisdictional and temporal grounds including TUPE transfer dates and the six-year arrears limitation period.

The tribunal found the claimants were not employed on work equal to that of their opposite-sex comparators, thus their equal pay claims failed on the substantive 'like work' comparison ground under the Equality Act 2010. Additionally, various temporal and jurisdictional barriers affected claims relating to periods before specific dates, including the claimants' own employment start dates, their comparators' employment dates, and the statutory six-year arrears limitation period.

• •Whether claimants' work as Business Advisers was equal to comparators' work as Account Managers under sections 64(1)(a) and 65(1)(a) of the Equality Act 2010
• •Employment status and TUPE transfer issues affecting temporal scope of claims
• •Statutory arrears limitation period under EQA section 132

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