Nearly 2,000 women can expect to share in an estimated £12m in lost pay after the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the favour in the seven-year case of North & Others v Dumfries and Galloway council.
Having conceded that council bonuses were discriminatory, more than 20 Scottish councils joined Dumfries in arguing that women should only get equal pay compensation if they worked at the same location as their male comparators.
Unison had appealed after the Court of Session said the 251 classroom assistants, support for learning assistants and nursery nurses in Dumfries were not able to compare themselves with groundsmen, refuse collectors and drivers and leisure attendants who received bonuses, but were based at depots, not in the women's schools.
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