Glasgow City Council Update



Lots of readers from Glasgow have been in touch to ask if I know the extent of the big pay differences between male and female dominated jobs before the City Council introduced new pay arrangements in 2006/07 following local Job Evaluation Scheme known as the Workforce Pay and Benefits Review (WPBR).

 Well the honest answer is that I know what the pay differences were in general terms, but I don't have the exact details of the hourly or weekly rates of pay for the different categories of Glasgow City Council jobs. 

 So, I can feel a new Freedom of Information request taking shape in my head which I may fire off to the City Council in the next few days.

 Readers in Glasgow may be able to help as well because the local trade unions negotiated all the local bonus schemes with Council management, which means that the trade unions must know what level of bonuses were being paid to male dominated jobs back in 2005/06

So someone still employed within the Council or who has since left may well have this pay information and may be willing to pass it on.

 I remember visiting a Home Carer in Glasgow (a union rep) to pick up a pay slip back in 2005 and she was amazed to discover that her husband (a GCC gardener) was on a much higher rate of pay than her after his bonus was taken into account, even though the Home Carer was on a higher grade.

 If anyone wants to pass on any useful details (some people keep their pay slips for years, for example), then drop me a note, in confidence of course, to: 

markirvine@compuserve.com

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