Is it just me being sexist, or do others find the current equal pay action against Tesco, Sainsburys et al, way over the top considering the comparisons involved?
Sure, checkout girls do a valuable job, but is sitting on a stool scanning groceries really the eqivalent of the physical demands of loading and unloading 40' containers?
I should say that I spent most of my working life in warehousing - at all levels - and women were largely paid the same rate as men, where they were doing the same job, but the majority were physically incapable (a fact of nature) of producing the same output as the male of the species. There's a reason women rarely worked down coal mines, or in steel works, and it should be blindingly obvious to all but the most entrenched emancipator.
My wife worked a couple of years as a Tesco checkout girl, and she finds the comparison equally laughable.
I'm no lover of Tesco, but I sincerely hope this action is given short shrift by the Courts - or has the World gone completely bonkers?