[dandare]

Frustratingly the article makes no effort to explain what they mean by equal pay liability.

The same goes for something called "savings delivery rate" that supposedly dropped form 91% to 70%.

And the mentioned "£131 million" for the Oracle finance and human resources system, is that annual or lifetime?

[fweimer]

Clicking around a bit leads to this:

“ The 2012 settlement followed a landmark court ruling which found hundreds of mostly female employees working in roles such as teaching assistants, cleaners and catering staff missed out on bonuses which were given to staff in traditionally male-dominated roles such as refuse collectors and street cleaners. ”

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-66042403

These £131 million are likely just for the initial implementation, given that the number grew rather quickly in recent times: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-66042403

[tomatocracy]

The "landmark" part of the 2012 court case was actually about how far claims could effectively be backdated, not the "equal value" part of the claims (which as I understand it was relatively straightforward because the council effectively admitted they were equal value by applying a common grading scale for all employees from what I understand). The UK supreme court judgment in question is here:

https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2012-0008-judgme...

[pjc50]

The Oracle number is, I think "one off". But some of that number also appears to be "intended savings that could not be made".

The savings delivery rate .. is something of a work of fiction, but if you build a new accounting system sold as being able to give greater insight and reduce costs, and it does not in fact reduce costs, or even work properly, that obliterates the hypothetical "savings" that were intended.

[arethuza]

That's almost certainly implementation costs - paying consultants to make the off the shelf software work for an organisation.