6 months in job any legal rights

Mudd14

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

The 2 yr rule was held to unlawfully discriminate against female employees who statistically have far less chance of staying in employment for two years compared to their male counterparts.

Of course that was the 1990's and statistics may be more equal now... but with the current economic situation, I somehow doubt it.

(Apologies for being a geek )

Any insight to why that may be? Seems a strange reason to reduce the 2 year status.

I agreed though the gender gap is still large. Infact with regards to equal pay there was still a 17% gap between men and women 38 (survey in 2008) years after they introduced the equal pay act in 1970

zzzLazyDaisy

Mudd14 wrote: »

Any insight to why that may be? Seems a strange reason to reduce the 2 year status.

The European Court of Justice ruled that the two year service requirement amounted to unlawful sex discrimination and was therefore against European Law.