Pay deals

Each month in Pay News Bargaining Report looks at the latest pay deals and recent surveys on pay and related issues. Brief details on a wide range of the latest pay deals are listed on pages 5-6. Below we look in more detail at features of some other recent settlements

Agreement % increase hours holidays

date number

Manufacture of non-metallic mineral products

Blue Circle 1.65 39.0 25

1.1.00 2,000 RPI plus 0.25%

Ready Mixed Concrete (drivers) 2.75 40.0 20

17.2.00 2,000 reduction in service for additional holiday

TSL Group 2.0 37.0

1.1.00 500 2% on basic rates, time rates and shift premia plus a £100 unconsolidated lump sum (pro-rata for job sharers and part-timers);

half-day holiday option extended to allow up to five days (10x half days) with two days' notice

Chemicals manufacture

Millennium Inorganic Chemicals 2.5

1.1.00 300 2.5% on basic pay and relevant allowances with discussions on working hours and cut in standard working week; removal of conditions payments; commitment to training and opportunity for individuals, on a voluntary basis to have up to five service holidays bought out for 1999/2000

Ciba Speciality Chemicals (Clayton) 2.2 37.5 25

1.1.00 250 two-stage, 15-month deal: 2.2% for nine months followed by 0.8% for six months

Resinous Chemicals 3.0 37.5 25

1.1.00 50 three days' paternity leave

Laporte Flourides (Rotherham) 2.0 38.0

1.1.00 44 2% across the board; re-negotiations possible later in year

Cuprinol 2.5

1.1.00 na temporary rate £4.30ph

Manufacture of metal goods

Record Tools 2.5 38.0

5.1.00 356 bereavement leave: two days for spouse, child, parent or parent of spouse; one day for siblings or grandparents

Mechanical engineering

Agricultural Machinery 3.5 39.0 22

1.1.00 11,000 1st year apprentices £94.43; 2nd year £114.19; 3rd year £132.86; 4th year £152.63. Unindentured juniors age 16 years £57.10; 17 years £75.76; 18 years £94.43; 19 years £113.09

Royal Ordnance 3.5 25

1.1.00 4,500 basic pensionable pay up 1.5%; re-introduction of 2% employee pension contributions; to compensate a further 2% increase on pensionable pay from 1.1.00

NSK RHP Bearings (Newark) 2.0 39.0

1.1.00 650 staged increase: 2% from 1.1.00 and 1.5% from 1.7.00 (follows a pay freeze in 1999)

Manufacture of office machinery

NCR (Scotland) 4.0 38.0 23

1.3.00 740 two-year deal: 4% in both years; if RPI is above 5% for three consecutive months, company prepared to talk; maternity pay improved to 19 weeks' full pay and 10 weeks' half pay; three days' basic paternity leave plus up to two additional days ; bereavement leave - death of near relative - three days basic plus up to two additional days

Electrical & electronic engineering

Clairemont Electronics 3.1 37.5

1.1.00 600 commitment to set up an incentive scheme before Christmas 2000

Philips Components (Blackburn) 1.0 39.0 25

1.1.00 500 1% and £100 lump sum; 1% from 1.7.00; 2% on shift pay

Agreement % increase hours holidays

date number

Manufacture of motor vehicles & parts

Vehicle Building Industry 7.31 39.0 22

1.1.00 8,500

Borg Warner Automotive 5.0 36.5

1.1.00 200 5% across the board; reward scheme enhancement - share out raised from 25% to 35%.

Cardale Engineering 2.0 37.0 25

1.1.00 144 14-month deal; performance-related bonus implemented from 1.1.00

Manufacture of other transport equipment

A&P Tyne 2.0 37.0 25

1.1.00 240 2% on basic rates, overtime premiums, sick rate payments and allowances; joint agreement to update and modernise working arrangements; three waiting days before sick pay paid abolished but cap of £18,000 per annum imposed

Food, drink & tobacco manufacturing

UB Distribution 2.2 40.0 25

1.3.00 650 RPI plus 0.4%. Shift premium not paid in addition to overtime for new employees

Terry's Suchard (Bridgend) 3.0 37.0 27

1.1.00 350 Call-out rota linked to individual absence rates; monthly pay.

Shippam (Chichester) 1.5 38.0 25

1.1.00 315

Textile

Lyle & Scott 2.0 39.0 25

1.1.00 360 additional day's leave over Christmas and New Year giving total of 10 days to be taken as two full weeks

Footwear & clothing

AGM Casualwear 0.0 37.0 24

1.1.00 350 pay freeze

Timber & wooden furniture

Fillings Industry 4.0 39.0 21

1.2.00 5,000 3% increase on rates; abolition of juvenile rates; increase of 4% on minimum weekly wage to £160.2 for an adult worker, inclusive of all productivity payments, bonus and all other emoluments

Project Office Furniture 19.1 39.0 24

1.1.00 460 first increase since 1995

Osborn International na 25

1.1.00 na reduction in wash up times from 12 to six minutes; two minutes morning break, two minutes lunch break, two minutes end of day/shift

Paper and paper products, printing & publishing

Westferry Printers 4.7 37.5

1.1.00 700 third year of three-year non-negotiated rise (3.7% in year one, 4.2% in year two); salaries cover shift work with no additional premia; two main rates in 2000: £39,436 and £24,399

Processing of rubber & plastics

Michelin (Burnley) 2.0 37.5 25

1.1.00 650 2% increase on working rates and allowances; changes to security of income guarantee: Michelin employ temps on variable contracts (VCE) giving permanent work with guaranteed minimum 150 shifts pa, when core and VCE reach 80/20 level core workforce will get guaranteed 206 days

Agreement % increase hours holidays

date number

Processing of rubber & plastics (continued)

Hutchinson (UK) 0.0 37.5 25

1.1.00 360 pay freeze for 2000 but the company agreed to look at anomalies in the pay scale, with a view to simplification/rationalisation, and to pay an extra 0.5% on its contributions into the pension fund

Thor Hammer 4.0 37.0 25

1.3.00 21 4% on all grades

Construction

Environmental Engineering NJC 3.5 36.5 20

1.1.00 36,000 3.5% increase on minimum salaries; 3.5% increase in provisional indicator salaries, giving total increases after five years' service to minimum pay of 7%-9.9%; London weighting up 3.5% to £1,865pa.

Refractory Users Fed 2.5 39.0 21

1.1.00 2,000 lodging allowance £19.43 per night; inner London accommodation supplement daily rate increased to £5.50; weekly to £38.50 and retainer per night £5.50

Amdega 3.0 39.0 21

5.1.00 120 3% on basic rates; sick pay increases to £13.54 per day and £67.721 per week; holiday pay accrual increases to £20.462 per week; FLT allowance £0.179 per hour

Wholesale distribution (except scrap and waste material)

Tradeteam (Exeter) 2.6 39.0 23

1.3.00 80 second year of two-year deal - extra day's holiday in 2000

Retail distribution

W L Vallance (Heathfield) 4.37 40.0 20

2.3.00 20 hourly rate up 4.37% to £4.30; subsistence £20 (night trunk between £55 and £63.50)

Other inland transport

First Cymru 3.3 39.0 25

1.1.00 700 16p per hour (worth 3.3% to minibus drivers) applied to basic, overtime, sick pay, accident pay and holiday pay with a further 1% from April 2000 (in relation to PRP); plus harmonisation of previously separate employee groups

Southampton Citybus 3.0 38.8 20

1.1.00 284 inflation + 1.75%; Saturday/Sunday premium rates approximately time and a third for OPO drivers; coach drivers' pay on annualised hours, based on 50 hours per week consolidated - 2,600 hours per year including five weeks' (250 hours) holiday

Supporting services to transport

Manchester Ship Canal Company 2.5 36.0 24

1.1.00 56 2.5% increase on all elements of pay

Miscellaneous transport services and storage

Thomas Cook 3.1 37.5 23

1.1.00 7,000 3.1% across the board; increase in service- related holiday for those on 37.5 hour week and additional day for those still on 36 hours (to 22 days basic)

Post services & telecommunications

White Arrow Parcels 5.47 23

1.1.00 4,500 for full details see page four

Banking & finance

Northern Rock 4.6 35.0 20

1.1.00 2,770 £360 increase for all clerical staff , £450 for all JM staff, £450 or 2.2% (whichever greater) for all other management grades

Agreement % increase hours holidays

date number

Insurance

AXA Sun Life 1.5 35.0 21

1.1.00 2,200 rise for most staff groups based on 3.75% pay "pot"=;underlying pay scales increased by 1.5% (except IFA sales); performance matrix provided individual awards of up to 8%; call centre staff had 1.5% plus 0.5% pot for exceptional performance; house staff and filing clerks 1.5% + merit; no staff on lowest scale minimum; local "pay pots" calculated on numbers within specific grades and scale mid-point salaries (rather than actual salaries) to direct money to areas where more on lower pay

Business services

Securicor Cash Services (NJIC) 2.5 39.0 25

1.2.00 na 2.5% on basic rates, night allowance, unsocial hours payments, shift payments, inner London and outer London weighting and Home Counties weighting; holiday bonus increased to £61.50 for December 2000 (taxable)

Education

Newham College 3.0 36.0 37

1.3.00 500 19-month deal: 2% from August 1999 and 2% lump sum or £150 (paid October 1999); 3% from March 2000 until March 2001.

Lowestoft College 5.0 35.0 52

1.12.99 129 3% from September 1999 and 2% from December 1999; automatic incremental progression

Recreational services

Vernon Pools (Liverpool) 2.5 34.5 22

4.1.00 1,000

ITN 2.5 40.0 25

1.1.00 800 2.5% for staff employed post-October 1990; 3.5% for staff employed pre-October 1990; RPI plus 2% for all staff 1.1.01;

existing provision: sabbatical leave scheme after five years' service; paid special leave up to one month in any one year; 13 weeks' full maternity pay; 10 days' paternity leave; three days' adoption leave

Yorkshire TV 2.5 37.0 25

1.1.00 750 new contracts agreed following dispute, greater flexibility in hours and working arrangements to be reviewed

Border Television 2.5 37.0 25

1.1.00 na 2.5% plus a further 0.5% to reflect individual agreement to a 52-week averaging period in respect of working time

Ulster Television plc 3.0 25

1.1.00 na existing staff get one week "stress & strain" leave in addition to five weeks' holiday (entitlement for new staff not known)

LWT 2.5 37.0 25

1.1.00 na five days' paternity, three days' adoption; subsidised creche facilities; redundancy formula three weeks per year of service up to a maximum of £75,000

Anglia TV 2.0 37.0 25

1.1.00 na 2% across the board; expected bonus in March in excess of 2.5%; expected that PRP scheme will deliver bonus meaning an accumulative 10% benefit for 1999.

HTV 2.0 25

1.1.00 na 2% across the board with an expected bonus in March in excess of 2.5%; further expectation that PRP scheme will deliver an accumulative 1% bonus for 1999