Pay

• Scottish council staff urged to reject ‘unacceptable’ pay offer

  A Scottish trade union has urged its members to reject the offer of a pay increase up to 3%.

  

• More than 2,000 council staff earn over £100,000

  More than 2,300 council employees were paid more than £100,000 in 2016-17, according to the latest ‘town hall rich list’.

  

• Update: All three unions accept council pay deal

  A two-year pay deal for more than one million local government workers is set to be rubber-stamped following decisions by all three unions involved to accept it.

  

• Unison accepts 2% pay rise for local government staff

  A two-year pay deal for more than one million local government workers looks likely to go ahead after the biggest of the three unions involved decided to accept it.

  

• Gender pay gap data - treat with caution

  Mark Whitehead explains why the new gender pay gap figures reveal a somewhat more mixed picture of what is actually going on.

  

• The gender pay gap: local government's national perspective

  Why do some councils have a gender pay gap and how are they going to address it? Mark Whitehead investigates.

  

• Councils praised for narrowing the gender pay gap

  Local government leaders have pointed to the high proportion of women in in lower-paid part-time jobs as the main reason for the differences in average rates compared to men.

  

• Early figures suggest men earn 6% more than women in local government

  Men in local government earn on average 6% per hour more than women according to the latest data being collected by the Government.

  

• Union members vote to accept 2% pay rise for council staff

  The vast majority of GMB members have voted to accept the 2% local government pay offer.

  

• North Ayrshire settles 500 equal pay claims

  North Ayrshire Council has settled hundreds of outstanding equal pay claims after months of delay.