NLC News (19/12/14)



A kind reader from North Lanarkshire has sent me a copy of the following 'motion' which is to be debated at a full meeting of the Council later today.

"This Council notes with concern that a settlement on equal pay still has not been reached; requests that the Equal Pay Working Group makes a full report to Council on the reasons for the delay and that from now on, the Working group gives a full report on proceedings after each meeting of the group to the relevant Committees and to Council, so that appropriate action can be taken to resolve this issue."

I have to say I hope the 'motion' gets passed because the content seems eminently  reasonable to me - that instead of a small clique of senior officials and councillors keeping calling the shots, that every councillor in North Lanarkshire should be able to understand what is being said and done in their name - and be able to question the Council leadership about what's been going on.

Not least because the same people in charge now are the same people who have been making a terrible mess of equal pay and there Council's local pay arrangements for the past 12 years, so they ought to be under the closest and toughest of scrutiny if you ask me.

I know that the SNP group have been critical of the Labour-led Council's actions and here is a a previous post from the blog site explaining what the SNP have had to say. 

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