Glasgow - Equal Pay Update



I shared the post about Glasgow's scandalous WPBR pay arrangements with all MSPs and MPs the other day, along with the following Tweet. 

"Glasgow City Council's 'unfit for purpose' WPBR pay scheme treats women workers as second class citizens when it comes to overtime working"

I am still waiting on the 'outraged' response and/or messages of support, but on the bright side I suppose it's still early days yet. 

  


Glasgow - Equal Pay Update (04/01/18)



'Overtime Working' arrangements under the WPBR are becoming an increasingly big issue in the fight for equal pay with Glasgow City Council.

Now overtime working is very common in different parts of the council workforce, but some groups do appear to receive a much better deal than others.

Put more plainly, Glasgow's WPBR was deliberately designed to favour traditional male jobs over their lower paid female colleagues. 

For example, Home Carers receive only 'plain time' or 'single time' for every hour they work above the standard 35-hour working week, even if they do additional overtime hours on a very regular basis.

However, many male groups are contracted to work 37-hours a week, and for the 36th, 37th and all additional hours above 37 hours, these groups receive a premium rate (i.e. time and a half).

Two make matters worse this premium rate is not based solely on grade, but incorporates an NSWP payment of £1,000 a year (although only for those contracted to 37 hours a week) and these groups of workers also enjoy a further boost from their WCD payments as well.

As regular readers know, llmost everyone contracted to fewer than 37 hours a week in GCC are women workers and so the 'rules' of the WPBR must have been deliberately designed to benefit the predominantly male 37 hour a week jobs.

Why else would such a rule be invented - because employees don't have to work 37 hours a week to qualify for holiday or sick, par example?

So just taking the NSWP payment on its own, thousands of women's jobs have lost out to the tune of £1,000 every year for the past 10 years - and that's just one small part of Glasgow's cockamamy WPBR scheme.

To add insult to injury, male and female dominated jobs are being treated very differently when they work more than 35-hours a week - even to the extent of Home Carers being issued with separate contracts for their additional overtime hours which are much less favourable than those offers to the male dominated groups.

What we need is more information on how these traditional male jobs are being treated when it comes to overtime payments and if anyone can shine a light on the subject, drop me a note (in confidence of course) at: markirvine@compuserve.com

I'm sure there are readers in Glasgow who know or might even be related to council workers in these traditional male jobs: gardeners, refuse workers, gravediggers etc.

If so, ask them to get in touch because they may well be able to help women council workers get their just desserts in 2018. 


  

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