Law Firms Are Targeted by Women Fighting for Equal Pay Employment: Backdated Cash Employment: Backdated Cash Almost 900 Complaints Over Legal Advice to Be Lodged

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WOMEN fighting for equal pay will tomorrow lodge almost 900 individual complaints against Scottish law firms in what is believed to be the biggest mass action against the country's legal establishment.

The women signed away their entitlement to full backdated pay from Glasgow City Council in 2005, settling for a lesser "compromise agreement" instead. In some cases, they accepted as little as a quarter of what they were owed.

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Law Firms Are Targeted by Women Fighting for Equal Pay Employment: Backdated Cash Employment: Backdated Cash Almost 900 Complaints Over Legal Advice to Be Lodged

They did so after the council warned it would be forced to make redundancies and cut services if it had to pay out all the money it owed 11,000 female workers who for years had been systematically underpaid compared with their male peers. The compromise deals cost the authority around G...

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