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Dozens of employment lawyers working for the Government Legal Department have accused it of pay discrimination and warned that unless their concerns are addressed they may take their case to the Employment Tribunal.
Following anger over salary revelations last year, more than 30 employment lawyers working for GLD have submitted a grievance to Susanna McGibbon, the Permanent Secretary of the Government Legal Department.
The lawyers are Grades 6 and 7, which designate "experienced officials with significant policy responsibilities".
A source within the Civil Service said the letter was "incendiary" and that "scores of lawyers are now all considering taking out their own grievance over pay", adding that it was "remarkable that the government has managed to piss off its own employment law function" so much "that it's going to end up in litigation".
In the letter, the lawyers accuse GLD of allowing "enormous" disparities in pay to develop between government lawyers who carry out similar work.
"For example, there is a white female grade 6 lawyer (with no declared disability) earning 86,000 per annum, whereas the vast majority of grade 6 lawyers, a large percentage from ethnic minority backgrounds, are paid in the region of 65,000", they state in the letter seen by RollOnFriday.
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