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Originally Posted by Chris
In that specific case, the council tried it on by introducing a grading scheme which put home helps on the same pay scale as bin men, but then adding bonuses and attendance allowances to the bin men's contracts while not doing so for the home helps. The existence of the pay grading scheme pretty much settled the argument over whether home helps and bin men were doing work of equal value - clearly they were, or they wouldn't have been on an equal pay scale. It could yet cost Birmingham £1bn to sort all that out. Though apparently they have never explicitly admitted that the sale of the NEC was to cover it.
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The underlying problem was that the pay grading system didn't allow for DIFFERENCES. The jobs were very DIFFERENT, but it was impossible to pay differently using the simplistic local government pay grading system.
There was a case where 2 groups on the same pay grade were paid differently. The mainly men group had their annual pay cut to match the mainly women group. But as the men were expected to work LONGER hours on MORE days, their hourly rate was LESS. So much for equality.