£50 million equal pay judgement

The PCS civil service union has successfully pursued equal pay cases on behalf of over 2,500 administrative and managerial workers in the Prison Service. The union proved that a range of administrative and managerial jobs were of equal value to those of prison officers and prison governors but that in some cases the salaries of the mainly women administrative workers were up to £5,000 less than the mainly male prison officers. The case has been running since 1999 and this is the latest failed attempt by the Prison Service to stop the claim. [Read more at > PCS-> http://www.pcs.org.uk/Templates

The LPPSF industry trade union federation is celebrating a major legal victory with the conviction of an employer for pressurising workers to leave the trade union. This is a first for Lithuania. Many earlier attempts to bring employers to book have failed for lack of evidence. This time there was an audio recording of a manager threatening a trade union member with dismissal if she didn’t leave the union. The case involved the Transachema company where a trade union was established in 2018 and 80% of workers became members. The union began collective bargaining but a year of delays by the

A recent ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) provides another example of economic freedoms taking precedence over social rights, according to the ETUC. The case involved collective agreements between local authorities and trade unions in Germany that specified who would provide pensions. The ECJ ruled that procurement rules should apply to authorities above a certain size and so the provision of pension services had to be open to tender in line with EU rules. ETUC general secretary John Monks said: “This judgment ignores the public authorities’ independence when they are acting as