Glasgow Council's Wrecking Ball
Glasgow City Council - Forced To Break Cover (August 26, 2021)
So it seems my post accusing Glasgow City Council of bad faith over its 'reinventing the wheel' approach to equal pay settlement negotiations has drawn a response from the council's chief executive, Annemarie O'Donnell.
Here's what AOD had to tell the Glasgow 'workforce family' after months of silence from the council bunker on George Square:
Wednesday 25 August, 2021
"I want to give you an update about the council's commitment to resolving equal pay claims.
You may recall from previous communications that agreement was reached with all parties involved on how to settle equal pay claims up to 2018. Payments to claimants were made following approval of the funding at the City Administration Committee in February 2019.
Some claimants were also due payments towards pensions and the calculations and settlements for pensions are still ongoing due to the complexity of the process. I can assure you that this remains a priority for the council and the process is being worked on by council officers.
As you know we are in the process of implementing a new pay and grading scheme and until that scheme is implemented, we will continue to deal with the issue of equal pay claims.
This involves negotiations between the council and claimants' representatives which includes our trade unions, on how to settle any new claims and the ongoing claims from 2018 and until a new scheme is in place.
Senior council officers are now meeting claimants' representatives and trade unions fortnightly to agree how to settle new and outstanding claims.
We will continue to keep everyone updated on this matter including committee decisions required to approve the process and payments to claimants
Now this sounds as if everything is just 'ticketyboo' which is just complete nonsense, of course, otherwise claimants would not be hearing a completely different story from their representatives.
Time to turn up the heat if you ask me, because from long experience I can honestly say that when it comes to equal pay at least GCC can be trusted about as far as I can carry an elephant on my back.
