Happy New Year!

A very Happy New Year to all readers - hope you all had a great time over Hogmanay and into the very first days of 2011.

This year promises to be yet another big year in the ongoing fight for equal pay - with lots of important cases coming down the track including:
  1. The challenge to Glasgow's Workforce Pay and Benefits Review (WPBR)
  2. The Equal Value claims still outstanding in many councils - on behalf of former APT&C workers
  3. The former Manual Worker claims still to be settled by some councils - including Midlothian, West Lothian, Argyll& Bute, Highland and Clackmannanshire Councils
  4. The Male Worker claims in Edinburgh City Council - dates for a GMF hearing have now been set
  5. The appeal over the Compromise Agreements used by Glasgow City Council in 2005
  6. The ongoing fight for transparency, openness and equal pay in South Lanarkshire Council - with more hearings due in January 2011
So there's a great deal going on - and an awful lot still to fight for.

Watch this space for further news.

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