Points Mean Prizes
The basic rule of Glasgow City Council’s job evaluation scheme (Workforce Pay and Benefits Review - WPBR) is that points mean prizes.
So, if you are a full-time worker – you get an extra 7 points and extra pay worth over £800 a year – just for being a full-time worker, not because of the skills and responsibilities of your job.
But if - and only if - you work full-time.
Now that sounds completely crazy, it has to be said.
Not to mention unlawful and discriminatory – since part-time workers are supposed to be treated equally and have the same basic employment rights as their full-time colleagues.
Why should someone (i.e. a woman) who works 30 or 25 hours a week be treated so very differently - from another person (i.e. a man) working 37 hours a week?
Could it be because the vast majority of part-time workers are women?
Because that’s certainly how it appears – that Glasgow City Council has introduced this bizarre practice simply to reduce the cost of the council’s pay bill.
But at the expense of women workers – the vast majority of whom work part-time, of course – and because of that they are being treated less favourably than the men.
What do the trade unions have to say about this?
What do Glasgow councillors – who claim the city council is an equal opportunities employer – have to say?
Their silence is deafening – and those that don’t stand up and speak out against what’s going on in Glasgow - should hang their heads in shame.
So, if you are a full-time worker – you get an extra 7 points and extra pay worth over £800 a year – just for being a full-time worker, not because of the skills and responsibilities of your job.
But if - and only if - you work full-time.
Now that sounds completely crazy, it has to be said.
Not to mention unlawful and discriminatory – since part-time workers are supposed to be treated equally and have the same basic employment rights as their full-time colleagues.
Why should someone (i.e. a woman) who works 30 or 25 hours a week be treated so very differently - from another person (i.e. a man) working 37 hours a week?
Could it be because the vast majority of part-time workers are women?
Because that’s certainly how it appears – that Glasgow City Council has introduced this bizarre practice simply to reduce the cost of the council’s pay bill.
But at the expense of women workers – the vast majority of whom work part-time, of course – and because of that they are being treated less favourably than the men.
What do the trade unions have to say about this?
What do Glasgow councillors – who claim the city council is an equal opportunities employer – have to say?
Their silence is deafening – and those that don’t stand up and speak out against what’s going on in Glasgow - should hang their heads in shame.
