{"id":4917,"date":"2026-01-01T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2026-01-01T15:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:05:38","slug":"equal-pay-settlements-for-female-council-workers-pass-1bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/01\/equal-pay-settlements-for-female-council-workers-pass-1bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal pay settlements for female council workers pass \u00a31bn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Settlements for equal pay claims brought by female workers against UK local councils have now exceeded \u00a31 billion, following a massive payout agreement involving Birmingham City Council. The claims address long-standing pay disparities where women in roles such as care and cleaning were paid less than men in comparable jobs. Unions report that thousands of claims are still pending, highlighting the scale of the gender pay gap in the public sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 27, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/dec\/27\/equal-pay-settlements-for-female-council-workers-pass-1bn\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settlements for equal pay claims brought by female workers against UK local councils have now exceeded \u00a31 billion, following a massive payout agreement involving Birmingham City Council. The claims address long-standing pay disparities where women in roles such as care and cleaning were paid less than men in comparable jobs. Unions report that thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":4919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4921,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/4921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}