Nottingham City Council still has not paid out to all affected workers after the Supreme Court ruled against the authority over its freezing of staff pay rises. The freeze on incremental pay rises was initially introduced in 2011 as the council sought to save £232m. It said this was down to its main Government grant being cut by two-thirds.
It had said the freeze had saved the equivalent of around 1,000 full-time jobs and, had it not been introduced, "job losses would have been unavoidable". However the case was soon taken to the Court of Appeal which decided the council had been wrong to freeze incremental pay rises.
And the council decided to appeal that decision, taking the case to the Supreme Court. Despite paying hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal fees, it refused the Labour-run authority's application and the case was sent back down to an employment tribunal where settlements were agreed.
