Meeting the Costs of Equal Pay

Lots of readers have been in touch to ask about the reports of a new Scottish government scheme that will allow councils to borrow additional funds – to meet the back-pay element of their equal pay costs.

What everyone wants to know is: “Will this make my council more likely to settle?”

Well the answer is – possibly.

The Scottish Government is not giving councils a blank cheque.


Individual councils will have to submit detailed proposals and explain what they have done to meet their equal pay obligations – past and present.

So, the position is likely to vary from council to council.

But the new scheme clearly gives Scottish councils, as a whole, more flexibility and room for manoeuvre – and to that extent it has to be welcomed.

It's taken a long time, but at last the Scottish government has rolled its sleeves up and got directly involved - and that's a positive development.

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