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Pay cuts 'will damage employers' credibility'

Cuts to workers’ basic pay and conditions risk doing damaging local authorities’ credibility as employers, Unison has warned.

By Dominic Browne | 21 September 2011

Cuts to workers' basic pay and conditions risk doing long-term damage to local authorities' credibility as an employer, Unison has warned, as further regional strikes are announced.

Disputes over pay and conditions are ongoing with several authorities, and Unison said its lawyers were now considering if the councils' behaviour was in breach of EU legislation.

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