Equal Pay
Equal Pay. A hosiery and knitwear maker in Leicester in December 1975. On Monday the 29th the Equal Pay Act comes into force, and the women on your machines…
Same work. Same pay. From Monday.
A hosiery and knitwear maker in Leicester in December 1975. On Monday the 29th the Equal Pay Act comes into force, and the women on your machines must be paid the same as men doing the same work, or work rated as equivalent. Their rate is well below the men's, inflation is over twenty per cent, and the pay policy limits most rises to £6 a week.
- Starts
- December 1975
- Length
- two years
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Scored on
- Trade profitably for 14 months
- Business
- Manufacturing
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