Reports from Haringey suggest the council is following the same well trodden path of making really poor 'buy out' offers to some manual workers - which don't deliver equal pay for the workers concerned - while leaving out many other groups such as Admin & Clerical workers, Classroom Assistants etc.
The employers and the unions usually band together at these times - and ask people to be patient - which is really rich coming from the same folk who said they would sort equal pay out 10 years ago!
Action 4 Equality's advice is don't delay - you will almost certainly be disappointed by the outcome of any ongoing job evaluation review - our experience is that the female dominated jobs always do badly out of these exercises - especially when councils do them in a great hurry and on the cheap.
Once you register an equal pay claim - you automatically trigger a 6 year claim for back pay (if you have 6 years service) - but the clock doesn't start running until your claim is up and running.
So, any delay is costing you money - and that's a very good reason for not hanging around - waiting on the employers to sort things out.
Who knows, at the present rate, it could take them another 10 years!
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