Equal Opportunities Employer?
Readers in Edinburgh continue to keep up the pressure on the city council - over its ridiculous refusal to make settlement offers to all groups of staff.
Up until now, the council has stubbornly refused to recognise the perfectly valid claims of male workers in predominantly female posts - Home Carers and Cooks, for example.
Yet women workers doing these jobs were made settlement offers long ago.
Edinburgh City Council is the only council in Scotland to make this distinction - which any fool can see is blatantly discriminatory.
How can a male Home Carer or Cook doing exactly the same job as a woman - be treated so differently?
The council is on a hiding to nothing over this issue - yet the council has been dragging things out and refusing to face up to reality.
But readers in Edinburgh have been fighting back - they've been making their views known to the council leader and other local politicians such as MPs.
Goood for them, because Edinburgh City Council is making a mockery of its claim to be an 'equal opportuntities employer' - and the sooner the council wakes up to that fact the better.
Up until now, the council has stubbornly refused to recognise the perfectly valid claims of male workers in predominantly female posts - Home Carers and Cooks, for example.
Yet women workers doing these jobs were made settlement offers long ago.
Edinburgh City Council is the only council in Scotland to make this distinction - which any fool can see is blatantly discriminatory.
How can a male Home Carer or Cook doing exactly the same job as a woman - be treated so differently?
The council is on a hiding to nothing over this issue - yet the council has been dragging things out and refusing to face up to reality.
But readers in Edinburgh have been fighting back - they've been making their views known to the council leader and other local politicians such as MPs.
Goood for them, because Edinburgh City Council is making a mockery of its claim to be an 'equal opportuntities employer' - and the sooner the council wakes up to that fact the better.
