Murphy v. Bord Telecom Eireann, 4 February 1988.
Upon referral by the Irish High Court, the European Court of Justice held that, under Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome, the principle of equal pay for equal work prohibits workers of one sex engaged in work of higher value than the work of workers of the opposite sex from being paid less than the workers of the opposite sex.  Upon remand, the Irish High Court sent the case back to the Labour Court with the instruction that the Labour Court should make a ruling as though the applicant women and the male comparator were engaged in "like work."  See Common Market Law Reports, No. 2, 1988, p. 753.
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