Birmingham City Council is set to introduce a new equal pay structure, resulting in 12% of council staff seeing a salary reduction.
Under the proposals, more than 88% of staff will see their salaries rise or remain the same. Although 12% of staff will initially see a reduction in their salary, this figure will fall to 7% by the time ‘standstill’ protection arrangements end.
‘Standstill’ arrangements will protect the basic salary, at current levels, of any staff set to lose money, until April 2010.
Two ways to improve local authority finances
The NAO has concluded insufficient action has been taken to address weaknesses in council finances. Teams from TLT LLP consider what councils should do next.
