Our thanks to Nigel for this in the Telegraph. He writes:

A very good example of very well-paid women using the “victim” card to leverage even more money by linking their cause with other women who might elicit some sympathy. The truth is that the “equal pay” class actions in public services had been in the late 80s and 90s and those in the retail sector had been going through the legal process for many years before the ladies of the BBC had a bit of a whinge and instantly got massive pay rises.

Far far more in pay rise than an Asda worker of either sex. In retail, as in other industries, the issue isn’t the pay for the same job, but that women and men tend to do different jobs on average. So the courts have to decide on “equivalent value” of different occupations. Which of course is actually hard to do if the actual jobs are very different, hence if contested by employers it goes on for years. For of course for commercial companies the real measures are the harsh ones “at what level of wage can I recruit?” and “how important is that job to business efficiency and profits?”. As you can imagine the result of not taking into account the “market” results in phalanxes of “experts” with differing ways of measuring “equal value”. Meanwhile a small number of highest tax bracket women claim a link with the check-out staff that I’m sure they barely glance at in Waitrose or M&S (I doubt any visit ASDA).

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