Typically, councils accompany these 'buy out' offers with a demand for a waiver - which says that the employee will take no further legal action over their rights to equal pay.
As everyone knows, these offers are an absolute con - they are cheating people out of what they are really due - and typically are worth less than 40% of the true value of people's claims.
In many cases the 'buy out' offers are worth much less (20 or 30% often) - because the employers base them on contractual hours - as opposed to actual hours worked - so employees lose out on years of overtime or additional hours.
The reality is that the employers (and the unions) have kept low paid women workers deliberately in the dark about equal pay for years - then they come along and make offers that deliberately don't explain:
1 What the traditional male jobs have been getting paid by way of hidden bonuses
2 How the 'buy out' offers are calculated
So, how can people work out what they're really worth - and whether they're being invited to accept a good deal or a completely rotten deal.
It's like someone cheating you out of £30,000 - offering to give you £10,000 back - and then expecting you to be grateful!
Action 4 Equality's advice is to:
- Reject these one-off 'buy outs'
- Pursue an individual equal pay claim
- Hold out for what your claim is really worth
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