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Armed Forces could be exempt from conducting equal pay audits

The Armed Forces would be exempt from proving it offered equal pay to its male and female employees, if the latest amendments to the Equality Bill succeeded.

In a long list of further tabled amendments to the Bill, Vera Baird, the solicitor general and person responsible for taking it through parliament, has requested that the Armed Forces and security and intelligence agencies be excluded from conducting equal pay audits.

Three Conservative MPs also listed a similar amendment.

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July 1, 2009

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