Farage’s plan for equal pay legislation may cost female workers money, say unions

Nigel Farage’s party have proposed a new act of parliament that they say can replace the 2010 Equality Act. Photograph: Martin Dalton/Shutterstock

A law proposed by Nigel Farage to “strengthen women’s rights” could cost female workers money by removing equal pay for work of equal value, unions have said.

A proposal, made by Reform UK days before the Makerfield byelection, to introduce a “women and motherhood protection act” that it says will restore equality before the law has been described as “shameless and deceptive”.