Equal Pay And Discrimination Claims – A New Reality For Guernsey

Like most offshore jurisdictions, the legal community in Guernsey is tightly knit, but traditionally very cautious when it comes to managing its reputation to the outside world, especially around issues like sex discrimination, harassment and the gender pay gap.

The reality remains people may know or claim to know what goes on within law firms and/or what different people get paid sometimes for doing the same job, but rarely does the outside world get the chance to see it first-hand. As such the recent judgment published by the Guernsey Employment & Discrimination Tribunal in the case of Katherine Hitchens v Babbé LLP, brought by its former head of corporate against the law firm, alleging constructive dismissal and sex discrimination in relation to pay has been illuminating on a number of levels.