Edinburgh City Council - Social Care Workers
A number of Social Care Workers from Edinburgh have been in touch with the office - looking for an update about their equal pay claims.
The council is adopting a mind bogglingly stupid position on the Social Care Workers - and other groups as well - here's a post from 11 February 2010 that explains the background.
The good news is that a date for the Edinburgh appeal has now been set - and this will take from 13 to 15 April 2010 at the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Melville Street, Edinburgh.
Individual claimants are entitled to attend - and should try and do so if possible - you don't need to be there for all three days.
Leading barrister (Jane McNeil, QC) who dealt with the original tribunal hearing - on behalf of Action 4 Equality Scotland clients - will also be handling the appeal.
"Edinburgh City Council"
"Edinburgh City Council is still refusing to settle outstanding equal pay claims - for significant groups of staff.
The groups include male workers in predominantly female jobs (such as male carers and catering workers) - and also former APT&C groups such as social care workers and cook supervisors.
Edinburgh's attitude is mind bogglingly stupid - because many other councils reached settlements for these groups long ago.
But for some reason Edinburgh still has its head stuck in the sand - and believes (wrongly, we say) that there is something worth arguing about - in respect of these claims.
Edinburgh tried previously to prevent former APT&C employees from being treated the same way as their former manual colleagues.
But after a major ten-day hearing at the Employment Tribunals - Edinburgh City Council lost this case by a country mile - which described the council at the time as 'trying to defend the indefensible'.
Unfortunately, the council appealed this decision to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) - delaying things yet again and wasting large amounts public money in the process.
We are currently awaiting the outcome of the EAT hearing - as soon as there is any news it will appear on the Action 4 Equality Scotland blog site."
The council is adopting a mind bogglingly stupid position on the Social Care Workers - and other groups as well - here's a post from 11 February 2010 that explains the background.
The good news is that a date for the Edinburgh appeal has now been set - and this will take from 13 to 15 April 2010 at the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Melville Street, Edinburgh.
Individual claimants are entitled to attend - and should try and do so if possible - you don't need to be there for all three days.
Leading barrister (Jane McNeil, QC) who dealt with the original tribunal hearing - on behalf of Action 4 Equality Scotland clients - will also be handling the appeal.
"Edinburgh City Council"
"Edinburgh City Council is still refusing to settle outstanding equal pay claims - for significant groups of staff.
The groups include male workers in predominantly female jobs (such as male carers and catering workers) - and also former APT&C groups such as social care workers and cook supervisors.
Edinburgh's attitude is mind bogglingly stupid - because many other councils reached settlements for these groups long ago.
But for some reason Edinburgh still has its head stuck in the sand - and believes (wrongly, we say) that there is something worth arguing about - in respect of these claims.
Edinburgh tried previously to prevent former APT&C employees from being treated the same way as their former manual colleagues.
But after a major ten-day hearing at the Employment Tribunals - Edinburgh City Council lost this case by a country mile - which described the council at the time as 'trying to defend the indefensible'.
Unfortunately, the council appealed this decision to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) - delaying things yet again and wasting large amounts public money in the process.
We are currently awaiting the outcome of the EAT hearing - as soon as there is any news it will appear on the Action 4 Equality Scotland blog site."
