Equality win gives council big hangover
South Lanarkshire Council HQ, Hamilton
WHILE over 200 Clydesdale women celebrate the prospect of a bumper backpay cheque from South Lanarkshire Council, councillors will be briefed at a special meeting tomorrow on the resulting cash crisis they now face.
The councillors are expected to be told that a long-awaited equal pay judgement could cripple council finances with almost a third of of its entire annual budget - £200m - going on compensating underpaid female employees.
As previously reported, around 2400 former and current council women workers, around a tenth of them understood to be from Clydesdale, have been involved in a six-year long legal battle with the local authority.
An important Employment Tribunal judgement last week could see some women get up to £10,000 each for 11 years’ worth of artificially underpaid wages.
For more on this, pick up a copy of this week’s Carluke and Lanark Gazette.
Email to a friend
Print this page
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Carluke
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 1 C to 11 C
Wind Speed: 29 mph
Wind direction: North west
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: 2 C to 9 C
Wind Speed: 24 mph
Wind direction: North west
