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Boots Manufacturing: 3% increase


Key details

Pay award: 3% basic pay rise

Employees covered (nos.): manufacturing and packaging grades (1,300)

Effective date: 1 June 2005

Approximately 1,300 production workers employed at Boots Manufacturing's Beeston site in Nottingham have agreed a pay and conditions settlement that increases basic rates by 3%, effective from 1 June 2005.

Shift allowances rise in line with the general award, and are now:

  • two-shift - £2,508 a year;

  • two-shift (nine-day fortnights) - £2,258;

  • three-shift - £3,415;

  • permanent mornings - £773;

  • permanent afternoons - £3,091;

  • permanent nights - £4,099; and

  • alternating days and nights - £2,049.