The Times (UK): Thousands face pay cut under new equality law

[Psephos]

March 12, 2007

Thousands face pay cut under new equality law
by Jill Sherman, Whitehall Editor

Hundreds of thousands of men working in the the public sector are facing salary cuts of up to £15,000 a year as equal pay agreements take effect, The Times has learnt.

Compensation claims for up to 1.5 million workers could cost the taxpayer more than £10 billion and mean that male staff lose up to 40 per cent of their salary.

Up to 700,000 female council workers, a similar number of NHS workers and tens of thousands of teaching assistants and Ministry of Defence staff are now eligible for equal pay settlements stretching back over six years.

Over the past two years, unions have reached hundreds of compromise agreements with local councils to help to protect male workers’ pay and jobs while getting a good deal for women. But aggressive no-win, no-fee lawyers are now unpicking the agreements by winning higher compensation payments for thousands of individual claimaints. The result is a tougher squeeze on male pay, with some men having their salary hugely reduced.
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I guess that's one way to do it...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/public_sector/article1499983.ece

[w4rma]

1. Instead of increasing pay to equalize they reduce it. The Blairites/British DLC strikes again. (nt)

[Greyhound]

2. Most of the neo-cons financial/privatization schemes came out of Britain.

A point well worth remembering.
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[Psephos]

3. Good point n/t

[AX10]

4. Labour has become England's Republican party.

Quite sad.