Renfrewshire Council
Renfrewshire Council has become the latest Scottish council to make revised offers of settlement to clients of Action 4 Equality and Stefan Cross.
The revised offers are a considerable improvement on the original cash sums proposed by Renfrewshire Council in 2006 - and also recommended for acceptance by the tame local trade unions, don't forget!
So, what it comes down to is that old saying: "She who laughs last - laughs longest!"
Individual letters will be issued to clients before Xmas and we will be doing everything we can to get people paid their money as quickly as possible in the New Year.
As with some other councils, these revised offers are restricted to employees on the old manual worker grades at the moment - but there are many other 'white collar' groups (in Renfrewshire and elsewhere) with perfectly valid equal pay claims.
So, these unresolved cases will continue - either until the employers come to their senses and make offers to these groups as well - or until a settlement is imposed via the Employment Tribunals.
The revised offers are a considerable improvement on the original cash sums proposed by Renfrewshire Council in 2006 - and also recommended for acceptance by the tame local trade unions, don't forget!
So, what it comes down to is that old saying: "She who laughs last - laughs longest!"
Individual letters will be issued to clients before Xmas and we will be doing everything we can to get people paid their money as quickly as possible in the New Year.
As with some other councils, these revised offers are restricted to employees on the old manual worker grades at the moment - but there are many other 'white collar' groups (in Renfrewshire and elsewhere) with perfectly valid equal pay claims.
So, these unresolved cases will continue - either until the employers come to their senses and make offers to these groups as well - or until a settlement is imposed via the Employment Tribunals.
