Victorian Employers in South Lanarkshire
Alex Neil MSP continues to champion the cause of council workers in South Lanarkshire - who are still fighting for equal pay.
Here's a copy of a recent press statement - in which Alex Neil compares South Lanarkshire Council to a Victorian employer.
"MSP Neil calls on South Lanarkshire Council to stop acting like Victorian employers"
Central Scotland SNP MSP Alex Neil has strongly criticised South Lanarkshire Council for treating many of its employees with contempt over the issue of single status and equal pay.
Mr Neil, who has taken up the case on behalf of hundreds of South Lanarkshire Council's workers, says the treatment being meted out to employees reeks of the contempt with which Victorian employers treated their workers.
At issue is the Council's refusal to provide the basic information it used to decide the wages of hundreds of workers as part of the introduction of single status, ie equal pay for the same work.
Many women workers in particular are losing out badly because the Council won't pay them the rate for the job.
A decision by Scotland's Information Commission is due and Mr Neil has strongly urged him to force the Council to reveal all the information on its review of equal status.
He added:
"For some strange reason the Tory/Labour Administration in South Lanarkshire is the only council out of 32 not to have taken part in the National Job Evaluation Scheme, which determined the outcome of these claims. It ran its own Evaluation but won't tell the workers who did it, what its terms of reference were, what its recommendations were or how it reached these recommendations.
The whole exercise is bringing the Council into disrepute and making it a laughing stock amongst all the other councils in Scotland.
They should fez up, tell the truth and settle on the basis of the national review, as clearly their own was deeply flawed."
Readers in South Lanarkshire are having a big effect by raising the the fight for equal pay with their MSPs - the issue is gathering steam - as we start the run in to the next round of MSP elections in May 2011.
What is your MSP doing - on your behalf?
Here's a copy of a recent press statement - in which Alex Neil compares South Lanarkshire Council to a Victorian employer.
"MSP Neil calls on South Lanarkshire Council to stop acting like Victorian employers"
Central Scotland SNP MSP Alex Neil has strongly criticised South Lanarkshire Council for treating many of its employees with contempt over the issue of single status and equal pay.
Mr Neil, who has taken up the case on behalf of hundreds of South Lanarkshire Council's workers, says the treatment being meted out to employees reeks of the contempt with which Victorian employers treated their workers.
At issue is the Council's refusal to provide the basic information it used to decide the wages of hundreds of workers as part of the introduction of single status, ie equal pay for the same work.
Many women workers in particular are losing out badly because the Council won't pay them the rate for the job.
A decision by Scotland's Information Commission is due and Mr Neil has strongly urged him to force the Council to reveal all the information on its review of equal status.
He added:
"For some strange reason the Tory/Labour Administration in South Lanarkshire is the only council out of 32 not to have taken part in the National Job Evaluation Scheme, which determined the outcome of these claims. It ran its own Evaluation but won't tell the workers who did it, what its terms of reference were, what its recommendations were or how it reached these recommendations.
The whole exercise is bringing the Council into disrepute and making it a laughing stock amongst all the other councils in Scotland.
They should fez up, tell the truth and settle on the basis of the national review, as clearly their own was deeply flawed."
Readers in South Lanarkshire are having a big effect by raising the the fight for equal pay with their MSPs - the issue is gathering steam - as we start the run in to the next round of MSP elections in May 2011.
What is your MSP doing - on your behalf?
