CN4B | Community Network 4 Birmingham

Birmingham City Council is facing a potential £1 billion bill after losing an equal pay tribunal, a lawyer claimed. More than 4,000 female workers took the authority to an employment tribunal claiming they should be paid the same as men for doing the same job.

During the seven-week hearing the tribunal heard how a man doing the same pay graded job as a woman could earn four times more than her.

All the women were employed in traditionally female-dominated roles, such as cleaning, care and catering, as well as administration roles.

The tribunal’s judgement announced yesterday upheld the women’s complaints and means the council could be forced to pay up to £100,000 to each claimant made up of backdated salary and interest from the year 2000.

The claims stemmed from the introduction of a Single Status agreement aimed at removing wage differentials between men and women.

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