[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...