Decision delayed on council pay freeze - Press & Journal:
Unions make legal challenge vow over controversial plans
By Calum Ross
Published: 18/06/2010
Councillors in Aberdeen have backed controversial plans to withdraw automatic pay rises for thousands of staff, but a final decision has been delayed.
The local authority’s ruling Liberal Democrat-SNP administration attempted to push through plans to withhold pay-rise increments for 6,555 workers yesterday.
Administration councillors suggested at the finance committee meeting that more than 200 jobs could be axed to save the £4.5 million that would be gained from delaying pay rises for a year.
The move was agreed despite looming legal challenges and the threat of industrial action by trade unions, but opposition councillors referred the final decision to a meeting of the full council on June 30.
More than 50 members of staff gathered outside Aberdeen Town House yesterday to protest against the plans.
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