Domestic abuse workers face £11k pay cut under new council scheme - Glasgow

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Staff at Assist, a domestic abuse advocacy service that works with high-risk cases, are essentially being moved down a pay grade after the council carried out an evaluation of jobs.

Workers said the evaluation left them feeling insulted after it suggested their work only required them to pay attention for 30 minutes at a time.

The council is introducing the scheme to resolve a long-running equal pay dispute, after it emerged the previous structure discriminated against women workers.

Employees with Assist who work 35 hours a week have been told their salary - which usually is about £45,000 - will be slashed by £11,500. Those who work 28 hours a week face a reduction of about £9,000.

NB these are extracts only - see full article for situation overall https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq36lyljwwz7o

And that the job requires "a level of concentration similar to painting a window frame".

I've painted window frames. You can do it with the radio on or while holding a conversation. If you make a mistake you wipe it off. You can't do any of those while listening to and advising someone trying to leave an abusive relationship.

Hard to believe.

But isn't it strange that in looking for cuts, somehow it is the jobs that women do that get down graded.

Is that even legal?

Absolutely shocking.. yet senior managers are set to receive massive pay rises

staff at assist won’t be able to pay bills, it’s beyond belief

Horrific, and a total false economy.

Saving people from DV enables them to reclaim their lives. Survivors are always really strong people, who were targeted by a parasite precisely because of that strength.