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"Mr President, as we have just heard from a couple of speakers, the Treaty of Rome contains one sentence on this issue: ‘Men and women shall be given equal pay for equal work’. Any normal person would think that that was a clear, comprehensible statement of objective but, in a series of controversial judgments, the European Court of Justice has expanded the plain meaning of those words well beyond what the Treaties say.
First it ruled ‘pay’ to mean pension rights, holiday entitlements and so on, and then it said that equal work means work of equivalent value. How is an employer supposed to assess that? Is it just a question of whether you look as though you are working as hard as the other person? Do you need to factor in how many suitably qualified applicants there were for the post? It even got to the stage, in a case in the UK, where a same-sex couple were saying that they were discriminated against because they were not married and one partner was not getting the same free rail pass that they would get if they were married. Whatever else that was, it was not being discriminated against on grounds of sex. There is a basic unfairness here which is that you do not know what you have signed up to if the law can be changed.
You know what? If I want to work for you and you want to employ me ..."@en1
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