Responding to the announcement that the Council has finally made a settlement agreement for Equal Pay, Cllr Robert Alden (Con, Erdington), Leader of the Opposition and Birmingham Local Conservatives, said:
The Council created this Equal Pay liability of £760 million in botched deals to end bin strikes in 2017 and 2019. They were instructed to end the equal pay liabilities and settle payments by March 2025. Even now with this settlement, the failure to act quickly means the Cabinet meeting today is noting that an extra £4.4 million will need to be spent on the staffing costs of resolving equal pay during the next financial year, in addition to any payments to staff, a full two years after the deadline the Council was set.
Cllr Ewan Mackey (Con, Sutton Roughley), Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Birmingham Local Conservatives, said:
The Council’s failure by first creating this equal pay liability in the 2017 bin strike deal and then refusing to act on our warnings for eight years means, even after this deal, taxpayers in Birmingham are facing increased bills to pay for Labour’s 100's of Millions of Pounds mistake.
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