Gleichstellungsvereinbarungen für weibliche Gemeinderäte belaufen sich auf 1 Milliarde Pfund

I wouldn’t want to tar all the claims with the same brush but some of them are utter nonsense. For example, I can fully understand why a bin man would be paid more than someone doing office admin.

Genuinely, why do any of the jobs if they’re paid the same?

Good luck getting bin men now when loads realise the easier more comfortable jobs pay the same

Am I misunderstanding this?

There are different jobs. Those different jobs get paid different amounts, depending how how physically demanding, dangerous or otherwise unappealing those jobs are.

Some people applied for and accepted jobs that were not very dangerous, physically demanding or otherwise unappealing and got paid for doing them.

But now they are getting back paid as if they applied for and did physically demanding, dangerous and unappealing jobs?

Is that right?

At this point I’m genuinely convinced some of you are intentionally misunderstanding this situation to try and stir up hatred.

Nobody is saying that heavy manual jobs shouldn’t be paid more than simpler less manual jobs. Unfortunately, when the various employers set their pay structures, rather than recognising this basic fact, they instead chose to give each job the same basic rate, and then top-up the pay of manual jobs with extra overtime rates and bonuses. This extra money wasn’t available to those with the less manual jobs, despite them – on paper – doing a job of equivalence to the more manual jobs.

The blame here doesn’t sit with these women, they are entitled to ask for fairness under the rules that existed at the time. The blame lies with the employers who wrote the crappy rules to try and cut corners.