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BY JENNIFER EADY QC, REBECCA TUCK AND BETSAN CRIDDLE

This year’s edition of Labour Law Review is a timely reminder of how far our framework of law has developed in recent years and how far we still need to go before fairness at work can be achieved. As the authors point out, earlier editions of the Review were slim affairs of around 13 pages, reviewing no more than 50 cases. More recently, the number of cases to be reviewed means it is difficult to keep the Review under 40 pages.

Women working full time are paid on average 17 per cent less than men, rising to 36 per cent for part time workers. Employment tribunal figures show that virtually one in five of
all claims in 2006/07 was an equal pay case. Most were multiple claims brought against public sector employers. However, a focus on the public sector masks greater pay inequality in the private sector, where the gender pay gap is nearly double that in the public sector.

European Labour law is at a crossroads. Recent decisions of the European Court of Justice in Viking, Laval, Ruffert and Luxembourg have shone a spotlight on what many see as a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the European project. That contradiction poses the freedom of trade unions to protect the rights of workers against the freedom of capital to roam the globe in search of free markets and flexible workers.