Scullard v Knowles & Southern Regional Council for Education & Training [1996] IRLR 344 is a UK labour law case, concerning equal pay.
[1] Ms Scullard was a manager at a training unit of a charity.
She wanted to compare herself to someone also employed by a Regional Advisory Council.
Mummery J, as President of the EAT held that ‘associated employer’ under s 1(6) had no application because the different units were not limited companies within s 1(6).
Instead, one had to rely on the wider provision of art 157, which has direct effect and ‘is not confined to employment in undertakings which have a particular legal form such as a limited company’