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However, I wonder whether he is aware that, if the recent judgment in favour of female council employees costs the City of Edinburgh Council the £25 million that it estimates, that will entail a 12.5 per cent increase in council tax in Edinburgh.
No practical change is proposed to the basic role of the constabulary, to employees' conditions or to the nuclear security regime.Scottish police forces work well with the constabulary in Scotland.
To say that the committee has no role or function in the matter and to make no reference, for example, to the considerable interests of employees, or the diversity and plurality of the Scottish press, leaves me fairly staggered.The letter is unacceptably dismissive.
From documents that I have read recently, I know that the committees of the European Parliament intend to examine the age profile of European employees. We could ask the petitioner to take his petition to the European Parliament, or we could refer it to the European Parliament Committee on Petitions.
The complainer expressed concern that an MSP"is prepared to print criticisms of local authority employees and openly question their integrity and professionalism in the form of a leaflet that is circulated on the morning of an election."
I do not think that paragraph 11 refers to civil servants; it refers to those who are former employees of Scottish Homes.I am not sure that we have any recourse to action, because there has been no motion to annul.
It offers advice on benefits for employers and employees. Individuals who have been made redundant through the direct or indirect effects of foot-and-mouth disease will, through the Employment Service, immediately be made eligible to undertake training for work.
However, now that we have raised the issue, I am concerned about challenges that may arise on cases that have come up in the past year—especially given the minister's words today.The convener made a very good point in the debate in the chamber about the position of the district court clerks, who are employees of the local authorities. Given what the ministe...
Do you have a view on the speed of the programme? Are there issues that are not being considered at the moment, but on which the programme should concentrate?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide an overview of the project to simplify civil legal aid assistance for solicitors. The Scottish Legal Aid Boardhas started a project to look at ways of simplifying civil legal assistance.