Edinburgh Male Claimants
Good news for Edinburgh's male claimants.
Edinburgh is the only council, so far at least - to have excluded male claimants in predominantly female (former manual worker) jobs - from settlement offers.
The kind of jobs involved are male Home Carers and Catering Workers.
The council deliberately excluded this group from settlement offers being made to women workers - doing exactly the same jobs as their male colleagues.
But the good news is that the employment tribunals have now agreed to put these cases to a GMF hearing in March 2011 - which means that Edinburgh City Council has finally run out of road.
The council essentially has no case to argue, but will be in the position of having to defend the indefensible - if these claims proceed to a full hearing.
Because how can the council argue that a man and a women - doing exactly the same job - are not entitled to equal treatment under the law?
Now it doesn't take a genius to work out the answer to that question - but Edinburgh have spent years denying the perfectly valid claims of this group of male workers.
So the ball is now firmly in Edinburgh's court.
Edinburgh is the only council, so far at least - to have excluded male claimants in predominantly female (former manual worker) jobs - from settlement offers.
The kind of jobs involved are male Home Carers and Catering Workers.
The council deliberately excluded this group from settlement offers being made to women workers - doing exactly the same jobs as their male colleagues.
But the good news is that the employment tribunals have now agreed to put these cases to a GMF hearing in March 2011 - which means that Edinburgh City Council has finally run out of road.
The council essentially has no case to argue, but will be in the position of having to defend the indefensible - if these claims proceed to a full hearing.
Because how can the council argue that a man and a women - doing exactly the same job - are not entitled to equal treatment under the law?
Now it doesn't take a genius to work out the answer to that question - but Edinburgh have spent years denying the perfectly valid claims of this group of male workers.
So the ball is now firmly in Edinburgh's court.
