‘It’s going to cost billions’: UK councils face huge bills over equal pay claims
by Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6EKH8)
GMB union is supporting 3,000 claims in Birmingham - and is gathering evidence from 20 other councils
Councils in the UK are facing compensation bills running into billions of pounds over equal pay claims, campaigners have warned, as they called on the government to intervene.
The GMB union is supporting more than 3,000 equal pay claims against Birmingham city council, and has disputes against councils in Coventry, Westmorland, Cumberland, Glasgow, Dundee and Fife.
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