Paid time off for medical screening at Jaeger Tailoring

As part of a pay deal that increased earnings by 2.5% from 1 April, paid time off for medical screening for hourly paid and staff employees at factories in Campbletown and Kilmarnock was agreed. This will cover necessary time off for official preventative medical screening checks for Well Woman and Male clinics. The arrangement applies to recalls, but not to treatment.

Other aspects of the deal include the setting up of a joint management/union working party to discuss the feasibility of four day working at the Campbletown factory (with no reduction in working hours), and an increase in allowances for job trainers and facilitators at Kilmarnock to £15 per week. There were changes to sick pay arrangements and an acknowledgement that the increase in the National Minimum Wage required by law in October 2001 (when the main rate rises to £4.10 per hour) will be implemented.