The women involved in the claim brought by public sector union Unison also include home care workers, cleaners and cooks. They contended that their basic rate of pay was less than that of men doing comparable jobs.
Around 20 teaching assistants and eight nursery nurses with NNEB qualifications will now earn bonus payments in line with men in comparable jobs following the ruling by a Manchester tribunal.
It means that a nursery nurse with an NNEB who was earning just under £16,000 in 2008, whose job was then compared to a male worker on the same terms and conditions, is now eligible for bonus payments of between 33.3 and 50 per cent.
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