On 6 June 1982 the European Court of Justice ruled against the United Kingdom stating that:
‘By failing to introduce into its national legal system in implementation of the provisions of council directive 75/117/EEC of 10 February 1975 such measures as are necessary to enable all employees who consider themselves wronged by failure to apply the principle of equal pay for men and women for work to which equal value is attributed and for which no system of job classification exists to obtain recognition of such equivalence, the United Kingdom has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Treaty’ (Document 61981CJ0061)