Sheffield City Council’s bonus system ruled sex discriminatory

Sheffield City Council could be set for a wave of pay compensation claims after the Court of Appeal ruled that its bonus system was sex discriminatory.

Male-dominated occupations – such as gardeners and rubbish collectors – have been receiving bonus payments for decades, whilst Sheffield’s mainly female carers received no such incentive pay.
 

Language does not simply reflect what is going on in organisational life: it also influences what people think and what they do

Linda Holbeche, director of the Holbeche Partnership and visiting professor of HRM/OD at Cass Business School