Mark Tarran

Employment lawyer. Senior editor at @PracLawEmp. Now posting at

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I am no longer posting on X. Find me over on Bluesky.

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@AnnabelDenham1 The legal right to equal pay for work of equal value is nothing new. It was introduced about 40 years ago in the 1980s. The sky didn’t fall down then and it won’t fall now. An employer that shows a non-sex discriminatory based reason for pay difference is not caught by the law.

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@teago_emplaw I hear you’re supporting The Band of Reasonable Responses on their forthcoming UK tour.

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@thebigbogg Happy birthday! Congratulations on making it this far (and for being exactly one day older than me). Long may that continue.

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@rarfarr I was worried I might be accidentally drinking like a lady but what a relief to know those days are over.

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@SoVeryBritish Morrissey, Come Back to Camden:
“Drinking tea with the taste of the Thames,
Sullenly, on a chair on the pavement.”

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@thebigbogg Congratulations Alan! A great addition to the bench! I wish you all the best.

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@DazNewman I think “could be” is doing some heavy lifting here.

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@DazNewman Infuriating isn't it! You can see a side by side comparison that I created here https://t.co/ifXBhLJwgb

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Freedom of speech in the workplace podcast featuring me, ⁦@DazNewman⁩ and ⁦@SarahGilzean⁩ https://t.co/a8tkxhG3Ih

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@JasonBraier @StefanCross1 @SeanJonesKC TUC’s reaction to the news only mentions ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting, nothing else. I’m still waiting to see anything authoritative on the details. https://t.co/nATh7EbQWl

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Oh here we go again.

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MoJ consults on introducing a fee of £55 for all employment tribunal claims and EAT appeals; fee will be payable on presenting a claim or lodging an appeal, with no further hearing fee #ukemplaw https://t.co/UaRIU42Asu

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@LizMcG_emplaw @JasonBraier @DazNewman @SarahGilzean @PracLawEmp It's going to be on The Hearing podcast. Available on Practical Law, Spotify and Apple Podcasts https://t.co/ZUwTADHysi

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@DazNewman Regardless of concerns (which I share with you) about these regs it’s unthinkable that the Lords will reject them as there is realistically no time to table an alternative before the 1 January REULA time bomb. So I think it’ll be a fun time for lawyers untangling them.

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@DazNewman I always thought these gigs were good for drumming up business.

Badum-tish.

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@MattJEJackson @DeshpalPanesar @robert_c_lewis @Indlawsociety That’s cos you’re sober

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@CWEslaw @CSBarnard24 @douglasbrodie5 @Indlawsociety Woah hang on where’s the ice cream and why don’t I have one?

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@teago_emplaw @Indlawsociety See you there! (Although not sure if I’ve made it to gang status yet).

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@EmploymentBar As a matter of law I think this is arguable as direct discrim. “Because of sex” is sufficiently wide to encompass sex of players.