Council staff will fight to retain benefits
UNIONS have warned council leaders in Edinburgh they will oppose wholesale changes to workers' benefits and conditions being proposed as part of a major pay shake-up.
Officials want to change working hours, scrap public holidays for staff, abandon all bonus schemes and introduce standard rates for overtime, under plans to review the salaries of 17,000 staff.
But the public-sector union Unison will fight any attempts to strip workers off long-held benefits and other conditions.
Union leaders claim the city council risks losing hundreds of staff and struggling to recruit new workers for key posts.
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