Jason Elliott was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2013 and is the Associate Head of School of Law at Ulster University. As a practising barrister, he has developed a largely civil practice representing individuals, companies and public bodies in litigation. This covers a wide range of areas including personal injuries, wills and employment law. In terms of employment law, he has represented both applicants and respondents in the Industrial Tribunal. At Ulster University, Jason lectures extensively on the civil areas of practise such as Equity and Trusts and delivers employment law lectures for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The claimants were store-based employees who are predominately female. The basis of the claim related to equal pay and parity with those who worked in the distribution centres of the respondent who were mostly male.
The claimants made a claim stating that the jobs should be rated as equivalent and that the work was of equal value. The basis of the claim was as a result of an informal exercise which was carried out in 2014. This ranked the two roles together. The issue for the EAT here was whether the informal exercise carried out was a job evaluation study within the ambit of the Equality Act 2010. If it was then it would allow
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