Anyone know about equal pay for equal value work?

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I have good reason to believe that a member of staff, who is junior to me, is paid more. I believe this is because of his sex. When work is not equal, but greater as in this case, does the legislation still apply?

Are you the boss of this person or are they in a different "branch" of the chain of command?

In a circumstance where director A has direct report managers B, C and D - C and D will be technically senior in rank to the junior members of B's team (hey let's call them E, F and G) but that does not mean that C and D should always be paid more than E, F and G. It's not seniority that counts but the complexity, autonomy, level of responsibility and decision making, and direct impact on the success of the organisation.

I'm not their direct line manager, and we deal with slightly different areas of the business, but I am a senior leader and they are a middle manager. I definitely have more of all of the factors mentioned above in my role. (Complexity, etc.)

I believe this is because of his sex.

Believing something isn’t enough to win a case, unfortunately. You need to be able to PROVE it. Can you?

I'm not sure how one would. That's the problem.

There are lots of cases eg thousands of refuse workers got Christmas bonusees whereas thosuands of cleaners did not - very similar jobs and the women won. Mind you I think on average there were lots of pay freezes as a result but if that meant better pay for women so be it.

The Equality Act I believe gives you a right to find out pay from a colleague but only if you have a discrimination case going on. I cannot remember the exact details. Originally it was hoped there would be a general right to find out pay but that was not what ended up in there.