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'Equal pay claims must be pursued'
A Union leader is urging thousands of Lancashire County Council staff to take out equal pay claims.
The exercise, which aims to end years of unequal pay, could affect the salaries of at least 25,000 staff.
Unite's Lancashire branch secretary Les Parker said: "If someone wishes to have a go, all they have to do is contact me as the county council has still not paid one single person properly."
Carol Lukey, Lancashire County Council's Unison representative, said: "The advice is that they contact our regional office to pursue any action.
"We are advising our members what their rights are. It is their legal right to pursue their legal pay claim."
Council leader Coun Geoff Driver said: "I'm looking at November time to have it resolved but it has been a mammoth task.
"It would be irresponsible on behalf of the unions if they encourage the staff to take out claims. It would be in nobody's interest."
It has been previously been estimated the equal pay exercise could cost the authority 52m with at least 14.5m already paid out in compensation to manual workers, many of them female such as cooks and cleaners.
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