Edinburgh City Council - male claims
Edinburgh City Council met earlier this month to consider the position of male clients - i.e. those employed in female dominated posts such as carers, cooks and cleaners.
The formal decision of the council was recorded in the following terms:
"To make no offers to male employees at this time but to recognise the arguments for paying staff the same regardless of their gender and to formally record that the Council was committed to being an excellent employer where staff are treated fairly and equally."
Now these are weasel words - the words of politicians who traditionally have more faces than the town clock - and they will provide cold comfort to male claimants who clearly deserve to be treated in exactly the same way as their female colleagues.
The legal action Stefan Cross is taking against Edinburgh City Council will continue as long as it takes. Remember at the start of this whole business councils, like Edinburgh, were insisting that no one had an equal pay claim. So, what do they know anyway?
It's just very frustrating, particularly for the male claimants at the sharp end, that the council should behave in such a shabby way - while having the brass neck, by the way, to continue calling itself an equal opportunities employer!
Nonetheless, we still expect to achieve the same settlement for male claimants in the end - and as soon as there is any further news we will let you know.
The formal decision of the council was recorded in the following terms:
"To make no offers to male employees at this time but to recognise the arguments for paying staff the same regardless of their gender and to formally record that the Council was committed to being an excellent employer where staff are treated fairly and equally."
Now these are weasel words - the words of politicians who traditionally have more faces than the town clock - and they will provide cold comfort to male claimants who clearly deserve to be treated in exactly the same way as their female colleagues.
The legal action Stefan Cross is taking against Edinburgh City Council will continue as long as it takes. Remember at the start of this whole business councils, like Edinburgh, were insisting that no one had an equal pay claim. So, what do they know anyway?
It's just very frustrating, particularly for the male claimants at the sharp end, that the council should behave in such a shabby way - while having the brass neck, by the way, to continue calling itself an equal opportunities employer!
Nonetheless, we still expect to achieve the same settlement for male claimants in the end - and as soon as there is any further news we will let you know.
