Bromley v. H. and J. Quick, 30 March 1988.
The appellants charged the respondent employer with sex discrimination under the Equal Pay Act 1970 because they were paid less than male employees that they claimed were performing work of equal value.  The respondent asserted that there was no discrimination, relying on a commissioned job evaluation study giving different values for the work.  The Court of Appeal of England held that the respondent could not rely on the job evaluation study because the study was not an analytical study based on ratings of demands made on the workers as required by law.  It also held that the onus was on the employer to show that there were no reasonable grounds for determining that the evaluation in the study was tainted by sex discrimination.
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