Thukalil v Puthenveettil [2023]
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Decision Number
EAT 47 -
Legal Body
Employment Appeal Tribunal (UKEAT) -
Type of Claim / Jurisdiction
Discrimination and Equality, Pay
Background:
The claimant was a domestic worker in the respondent’s home from 2005 to 2013. The National Minimum Wage Regulation 1999 (Regulation) outlined that such domestic workers were exempt and therefore not entitled to the minimum wage. This was challenged on the grounds that the Regulation was indirectly discriminatory against women and contrary to EU law.
Outcome:
The Tribunal, at first instance, held that the Regulation was indirectly discriminatory on the grounds of sex, and it was not a proportionate way in achieving the aim which related to a live-in worker being treated as a family member. The Tribunal further concluded that the Regulation was contrary to the
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