GMB Wins Estimated £500k Backpay for Workers at Boston Borough Council

The Employment Tribunal found that council workers in the CCTV monitoring unit had been wrongly deprived of their entitlement to be paid unsocial hours pay since 1999 in some instances. GMB estimates that GMB members will receive varying amounts between £7,000 and £25,000 reparation each depending on their individual circumstances.

The council staff work in the CCTV monitoring section and have not received unsocial hours payments which they are due under their contracts of employment.

Cheryl Pidgeon, GMB Organiser said,

"GMB is delighted with this win on behalf of GMB members who, we knew, have been unfairly under paid for many years. GMB will not tolerate this council or any other attempting to avoid paying our members and their workers what they are owed for the valuable work that they do for their communities. Rather than threatening our members with job cuts perhaps the Council should turn their attention to why this was so poorly mismanaged in the first place and answer to the General Public on why they used their valuable council taxes on legal fees that could have been avoided. They deliberately withheld information from GMB Members - indeed they wrote to GMB members suggesting that they resign and test their case in the courts. Well they refused to resign, went to court and claimed what they had rightly earned!"

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Contact: Cheryl Pidgeon, GMB Organiser on 07966 327970 or GMB Press Office: Rose Conroy 07974 251823 or Steve Pryle 07921 289880.