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Sheffield City Council settles with women in equal pay claim

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SybilBeddows · 19/09/2011 22:29

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'An equal pay claim by hundreds of women working at Sheffield City Council has been settled before it reached a Supreme Court hearing next month.

About 900 women, including dinner ladies and care workers, had claimed they were paid less than male workers.

Sheffield City Council faced making payments of about £20m if it lost the case at the Supreme Court.'

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frumpyq · 19/09/2011 22:43

Are the council changing its policy on this underpaying of female staff?

It's disgusting that it was allowed to continue.

Considering sheffield have 30 female councilwomen (Almost but not quite half) i'm stunned by this fuck up oversight.

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SybilBeddows · 20/09/2011 12:17

There isn't much detail in the article but from what they said on the news last night it sounded like it was to do with a (presumably discontinued) bonus scheme that for no good reason was applied to the jobs men did but not the jobs women did.

They don't yet know how much each woman will be getting. I hope it's decent.

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aliceliddell · 21/09/2011 15:11

The truly genius aspect of this is that the discriminatory bonus schemes were negotiated by unions, notably the GMB. Singular failure to ensure equal pay, then failure to get it back dated, yet claim victory inseveral cases where men got pay cuts to equalise, then won strike to get pay restored. This is going to be really easy in a period of massive cuts. The question 'equal pay or meals on wheels' has already surfaced. The GMB still managed to set up a sex workers section during this period, in alliance with International Union of Sex Workers - a union which includes pimps employers among its members, a unique achievement in the labour movement. Yay, comrades! Cheers.

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aliceliddell · 21/09/2011 15:12

Frumpy what party are the women councillors in? (Might make minimal difference, but not much tbh)

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