Alex Tabarrok: Britain's equal pay madness
Britain’s ‘equal value’ pay rules go well beyond upholding equal pay for the same work, and mean that tribunals have the power to ignore the market and decide that bin men and teaching assistants should, in fact, be paid the same. These rules bankrupted Birmingham City Council, and the big supermarkets are already facing claims worth up to £8 billion for back pay. Now the Government wants to expand the law further, adding race and disability to the list of grounds on which you can bring a claim.
Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and co-founder of the blog…
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