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A tangled web: Barber and beyond—a research report
Author(s) -
Desmond Helen
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1992.tb00621.x
Subject(s) - legislation , pension , population ageing , pension system , population , political science , labour law , law and economics , law , sociology , demography
It is now some 17 years since the United Kingdom implemented equal pay and sex discrimination legislation. This has produced a battery of case law leading to an excessively complex system. An ageing population and greater emphasis on European law has led to the development of a new area for equality, that of retiremenet age and pension benefits