{"id":77571,"date":"2019-01-27T00:28:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T23:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/27\/law-firm-defends-13m-fee-for-equality-action-against-glasgow-council\/"},"modified":"2019-01-27T00:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T23:28:32","slug":"law-firm-defends-13m-fee-for-equality-action-against-glasgow-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=77571","title":{"rendered":"Law firm defends \u00a313m fee for equality action against Glasgow council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flamboyant lawyer Stefan Cross won \u00a3500m for 14,000 women after 12-year pay battleA claims company that was instrumental in securing a \u00a3500m equal-pay deal for thousands of female council workers in Glasgow is to receive \u00a313m of the payout to cover its fees, the Observer has learned.The sum paid to Action4Equality Scotland has raised eyebrows among some union officials, one of whom told the Observer: \u201cIt does seem a huge amount.\u201d But Stefan Cross, the company\u2019s founder and an equality lawyer who has secured similar successful claims against other councils in Scotland and England, has defended its fee. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/jan\/26\/claims-firm-glasgow-council-equality-payout-women-workers\" target=\"_blank\">Law firm defends \u00a313m fee for equality action against Glasgow council<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flamboyant lawyer Stefan Cross won \u00a3500m for 14,000 women after 12-year pay battleA claims company that was instrumental in securing a \u00a3500m equal-pay deal for thousands of female council workers in Glasgow is to receive \u00a313m of the payout to cover its fees, the Observer has learned.The sum paid to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}