New Contracts - Glasgow City Council
At the end of March 2007, Glasgow City Council announced that it would be imposing the terms of its Pay and Benefits Review on all council employees - including those who had still to sign up to the new contract.
The council issued a letter stating that the new contract would come into effect from April onwards whether people liked it or not. This should have meant that everyone went on to the same rate of pay - and that people were paid the back money they were due for the period April 2006 to March 2007.
But the council has now reneged on this promise and gone back on its word - and not for the first time either.
Some people who accepted the new contract - reluctantly or otherwise - have now been told that they will stay on a lower rate of pay (for how long no one seems to know) and that they will not receive the back pay they had been led to expect.
The council's behaviour is vindictive and bullying - to say one thing and then go back on its word is a disgrace and employees affected should complain vociferously to the council leader (Councillor Stephen Purcell) and also to their own local councillors.
All Glasgow councillors hold regular local surgeries and can normally be contacted relatively easily by making a personal appointment, or by phone and e-mail. Details of how to contact your local councillor are available from the City Chambers on 0141 287 2000
Alternatively, you can obtain these contact details from the council's web site at: http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/
If you have an case already underway with Action 4 Equality and Stefan Cross, the money that the council has withheld (between April 2006 - March 2007) forms part of your ongoing equal pay claim.
The council issued a letter stating that the new contract would come into effect from April onwards whether people liked it or not. This should have meant that everyone went on to the same rate of pay - and that people were paid the back money they were due for the period April 2006 to March 2007.
But the council has now reneged on this promise and gone back on its word - and not for the first time either.
Some people who accepted the new contract - reluctantly or otherwise - have now been told that they will stay on a lower rate of pay (for how long no one seems to know) and that they will not receive the back pay they had been led to expect.
The council's behaviour is vindictive and bullying - to say one thing and then go back on its word is a disgrace and employees affected should complain vociferously to the council leader (Councillor Stephen Purcell) and also to their own local councillors.
All Glasgow councillors hold regular local surgeries and can normally be contacted relatively easily by making a personal appointment, or by phone and e-mail. Details of how to contact your local councillor are available from the City Chambers on 0141 287 2000
Alternatively, you can obtain these contact details from the council's web site at: http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/
If you have an case already underway with Action 4 Equality and Stefan Cross, the money that the council has withheld (between April 2006 - March 2007) forms part of your ongoing equal pay claim.
