NHS equal pay cases could cost millions - The Observer 17th February 2008

Legal action could open door to 40,000 back-pay claims by hospital staff The NHS faces a wave of lawsuits over equal pay which threatens to leave a multi-million-pound black hole in hospital budgets. A test case could lead to up to 40,000 claims from hospital workers who say they have been unfairly treated compared with male colleagues. The case centres on arguments that workers looking after hospital buildings - mostly men - are paid more than the mainly female staff who care for patients. If successful, the women will be entitled to at least six years' back pay.

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