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FEMALE Civil Service staff are paid less for doing the same job as their male colleagues, their union PCS revealed today.
A Civil Service executive officer in a majority male department is paid 13 per cent more than an executive officer in a majority female department, the union said.
And an admin officer in a majority male department is paid 12.6 per cent more than an executive officer in a majority female department.
Speaking at the TUC’s Women’s Conference, PCS general secretary and TUC president Mark Serwotka said that delegated pay where different departments are allowed to set different pay rates “has institutionalised the gender pay gap” for staff.
He said: “In health and local government there are single pay systems covering millions of public-sector workers. But in the Civil Service, for the last 20 years pay determination has been delegated to government departments.”
Mr Serwotka said this has created the environment “ripe for pay inequality” and said the union demanded national pay bargaining, an end to unequal pay and a decent pay rise across the board.
