Equal pay is an area of employment law that is complex and not easily understood. This complexity is recognised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which notes that equal pay for work of equal value has proved to be difficult to understand, both with regard to what it entails and in...

Section 6(1) of the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 (“EEA”) provides protection against unfair discrimination on listed and arbitrary grounds (the listed grounds are race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, family responsibility, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation,...