UK Power Networks loses discrimination case

UK Power Networks has paid out £24,000 in compensation following a sex discrimination employment tribunal.

Procurement specialist Amy Arnold, from Red Lodge, Suffolk, was found to be the victim of ”direct discrimination' after being denied equal pay and a promotion, the East Anglian Daily Times reports.

The judge said she “never stood a chance of an equal playing field” because the power company were “constantly moving the goalposts” over an equal pay issue with male colleagues.

In December 2014, Arnold found out she was not being paid in line with male colleagues and raised her concerns the following month. She was told to achieve professional qualifications and to meet certain performance criteria to achieve a pay rise, but even when she achieved these, the raise did not materialise.