Glasgow's Pay Arrangements
The workforce at Glasgow City Council is predominantly female - around 70% of its 27,000 or so employees are women.
So, all things being equal, you would expect women to occupy around 70% or of each job category and for women to be involved in 70% or so of all work related issues - from sickness absence and disciplinary hearings to interviews for a promoted post.
Unless, of course, there's a gender based explanation such as maternity or paternity leave - or there's some other factor at play such as discrimination, for example.
Here's an interesting table which shines a light on the payments Glasgow City Council staff receive for doing shift work - the Non-Standard Working Pattern (NSWP) part of Glasgow's Workforce Pay and Benefits review (WPBR).
NSWP Percentage breakdown Grade 1 to 7
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Grade
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Male
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Female
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Totals
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% of Males by grade in
receipt of NSWP
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% of females by grade in
receipt of NSWP
|
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0
|
3293
|
15441
|
18734
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39.71%
|
81.07%
|
|
A
|
347
|
888
|
1235
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4.18%
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4.66%
|
|
B
|
2528
|
1382
|
3910
|
30.49%
|
7.26%
|
|
C
|
566
|
681
|
1247
|
6.83%
|
3.58%
|
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D
|
1213
|
210
|
1423
|
14.63%
|
1.10%
|
|
E
|
20
|
43
|
63
|
0.24%
|
0.23%
|
|
F
|
325
|
402
|
727
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3.92%
|
2.11%
|
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TOTALS
|
8292
|
19047
|
27339
|
100.00%
|
100.00%
|
|
In receipt of NSWP
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Gender
|
yes
|
no
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Grand Total
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% of All employees
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% of employees in receipt of
NSWP by gender
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% of Gender in receipt of
NSWP
|
Female
|
3606
|
15441
|
19047
|
69.67%
|
41.91%
|
18.93%
|
Male
|
4999
|
3293
|
8292
|
30.33%
|
58.09%
|
60.29%
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TOTALS
|
8605
|
18734
|
27339
|
100.00%
|
100.00%
|
79.22%
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Example: Total Female in
receipt of NSWP divided by
the overall total of both men
and Woman in receipt of
NSWP
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Example: Total percentage
of Female in receipt of
NSWP divided by the total
number of females
employed
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The figures are based on the WPBR in 2007 and number of things jump straight out to me:
- Over 80% of women don't qualify for a NSWP payment because they score zero (0) points on the City Council's scoring system
- Far fewer women (19%) than men (60%) qualify for an NSWP payment even though women make up a big 70% majority of the City Council's workforce
- Over 50% of male workers receive an NSWP payment at the higher paying B, C and D bands
- Yet only 12% of women fall into the B,C and D bands.
Now I don't know who made up Glasgow's cockamamy scoring system, but if you ask me they have made up the rules in a way that punishes and discriminates against the jobs done by women.
In the next few days I'll publish more information about the NSWP 'rules' and scoring system which I imagine will be of great interest to lots of readers in Glasgow.
As far as I know the unions in Glasgow have not called any strikes or even threatened industrial action over the operation of the NSWP scheme.
As far as I know the unions in Glasgow have not called any strikes or even threatened industrial action over the operation of the NSWP scheme.