Glasgow meetings
The Glasgow 'drop in' meetings held earlier this week were a great success - lots of new enquires, such as:
Why are people able to re-start their claims?
Because the council has continued to protect the higher earnings of traditional male groups - refuse workers and gardeners, for example - so there is is still a significant pay gap between many male and female jobs.
What about the Compromise Agreement I signed in December 2005?
Makes no difference - signing a Compromise Agreement doesn't prevent you from pursuing a new claim - because a new claim is about pay arrangements within the council after December 2005.
Who can restart their claims?
Just about everyone who received a settlement offer from the council in December 2005 - i.e.
Cleaners
Catering Staff
Home Carers
Classroom Assistants
Child Development Officers
School-based Clerical Staff
Why did the council make settlement offers to only some APT&C staff?
Who knows - the council has done some crazy things over equal pay, but it has never explained why a school based admin and clerical worker was made an offer - while people on the same grade elsewhere were excluded.
What can the excluded groups do about that?
Register an equal pay claim - it's still possible for people in these groups to pursue a claim now.
Why are people able to re-start their claims?
Because the council has continued to protect the higher earnings of traditional male groups - refuse workers and gardeners, for example - so there is is still a significant pay gap between many male and female jobs.
What about the Compromise Agreement I signed in December 2005?
Makes no difference - signing a Compromise Agreement doesn't prevent you from pursuing a new claim - because a new claim is about pay arrangements within the council after December 2005.
Who can restart their claims?
Just about everyone who received a settlement offer from the council in December 2005 - i.e.
Cleaners
Catering Staff
Home Carers
Classroom Assistants
Child Development Officers
School-based Clerical Staff
Why did the council make settlement offers to only some APT&C staff?
Who knows - the council has done some crazy things over equal pay, but it has never explained why a school based admin and clerical worker was made an offer - while people on the same grade elsewhere were excluded.
What can the excluded groups do about that?
Register an equal pay claim - it's still possible for people in these groups to pursue a claim now.
