Stirling - Settlement in Sight
Stirling is the latest council to come forward with revised offers of settlement to clients of Stefan Cross and Action 4 Equality.
Stirling is one of Scotland's smaller councils, but it does go to show that the employers are talking to one another behind the scenes - and the result of the May council elections has certainly stirred the pot.
Where the control of a council has changed hands - or the administration is under more pressure than before - there appears to be a willingness to deal with the mess that the employers and trade unions have made of equal pay.
At this stage, Stirling is restricting its offer to former manual worker posts - and has not finally decided whether to make a similar offer to former APT&C staff. We are obviously encouraging the council to include as many people as possible - since we believe that all current claims are valid.
Unfortunately, the person dealing with the calculations has gone off on holiday and the council says there is no one else who can do the job while he is away - so there will be a delay in getting things moving for a few weeks yet.
We are writing directly to all Stirling clients with the news - and, of course, in terms of the bigger picture across Scotland it is clearly a good sign that yet another council seems to be coming to its senses.
Stirling is one of Scotland's smaller councils, but it does go to show that the employers are talking to one another behind the scenes - and the result of the May council elections has certainly stirred the pot.
Where the control of a council has changed hands - or the administration is under more pressure than before - there appears to be a willingness to deal with the mess that the employers and trade unions have made of equal pay.
At this stage, Stirling is restricting its offer to former manual worker posts - and has not finally decided whether to make a similar offer to former APT&C staff. We are obviously encouraging the council to include as many people as possible - since we believe that all current claims are valid.
Unfortunately, the person dealing with the calculations has gone off on holiday and the council says there is no one else who can do the job while he is away - so there will be a delay in getting things moving for a few weeks yet.
We are writing directly to all Stirling clients with the news - and, of course, in terms of the bigger picture across Scotland it is clearly a good sign that yet another council seems to be coming to its senses.
