NLC Update (15/04/15)

Letters should have started going out this week to thousands of Action 4 Equality Scotland (A4ES) clients in North Lanarkshire providing individual details on the recent equal pay settlement.

For reasons known only to North Lanarkshire Council the process has become 'stuck in the mud' again even though the Council is in possession all the information required to move things on to the next stage.

Detailed financial data from A4ES (on behalf of individual clients) was supplied to North Lanarkshire days ago although the 'big picture' has been very clear for several weeks. 

All that NLC has to do is to check and verify this information so that thousands of individual letters can start going out to individual A4ES clients who have been waiting patiently for this day to arrive for a very long time, of course.

Now North Lanarkshire is a big and well-resourced organisation, the fourth largest council in Scotland, so you would think the Council would be pulling out all the stops to get this vital job done.

Yet here we are again with another unnecessary, frustrating hold-up which makes North Lanarkshire look as if it couldn't care less about its long-suffering employees, despite all  they've been put through in recent years. 

So if the present situation doesn't change for the better in the next 24 hours, I will fire-up the A4ES campaign engine and encourage what amounts to a small army of claimants to complain to their elected representatives in North Lanarkshire - local councillors, MPs and MSPs.

Which really shouldn't be necessary because the ball is well and truly in the Council's court, but if the only way to break the logjam is to stir up a bit of a hornet's nest - then so be it.

Because there couldn't be a better time to do this with the general election campaign in full swing.