North Lanarkshire Council
North Lanarkshire's cases are continuing to make their way through the Employment Tribunal process – just as they are in all other councils.
Progress is slower than originally anticipated because the employers are doing everything they can to delay things.
But judgment day will come when councils face a GMF hearing, i.e. a defence hearing where the council has to explain and try to justify the big differences in pay between traditional male and female jobs.
We are pressing the tribunals to set a GMF hearing for North Lanarkshire – as they have done for Glasgow, Fife and North Ayrshire Councils.
We remain confident about the outcome – because in our view these big differences in pay simply cannot be justified – which is why some councils (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling – for example) have seen the light and agreed to negotiate solution to many of their outstanding case.
North Lanarkshire Council has already settled some of its claims – for cleaning and catering staff – but the other groups look as though they will have to be decided by the employment tribunals.
There are lots of NLC employees who can still bring claims – even though they may have accepted the council’s original offer – because the higher pay of the men is still being protected – there are also many groups (admin and clerical workers, for example) who were never made a settlement offer, but nonetheless have perfectly valid claims
So spread the word if you know anyone in that situation – because the prospect of more claims will encourage North Lanarkshire to reach an earlier negotiated settlement.
We are doing everything we can to bring all the outstanding cases to a successful conclusion as quickly as possible – and as soon as there are any developments will let people know here via the Action 4 Equality Scotland blog site.
Progress is slower than originally anticipated because the employers are doing everything they can to delay things.
But judgment day will come when councils face a GMF hearing, i.e. a defence hearing where the council has to explain and try to justify the big differences in pay between traditional male and female jobs.
We are pressing the tribunals to set a GMF hearing for North Lanarkshire – as they have done for Glasgow, Fife and North Ayrshire Councils.
We remain confident about the outcome – because in our view these big differences in pay simply cannot be justified – which is why some councils (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling – for example) have seen the light and agreed to negotiate solution to many of their outstanding case.
North Lanarkshire Council has already settled some of its claims – for cleaning and catering staff – but the other groups look as though they will have to be decided by the employment tribunals.
There are lots of NLC employees who can still bring claims – even though they may have accepted the council’s original offer – because the higher pay of the men is still being protected – there are also many groups (admin and clerical workers, for example) who were never made a settlement offer, but nonetheless have perfectly valid claims
So spread the word if you know anyone in that situation – because the prospect of more claims will encourage North Lanarkshire to reach an earlier negotiated settlement.
We are doing everything we can to bring all the outstanding cases to a successful conclusion as quickly as possible – and as soon as there are any developments will let people know here via the Action 4 Equality Scotland blog site.
