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Friends Provident: 3.5% merit pay budget

Key details

Pay award: merit rises from 3.5% pot

Employees covered (nos.): all staff (3,400)

Effective date: 1 January 2006

All 3,400 employees at financial services group Friends Provident have been awarded all-merit increases from a 3.5% pay pot, effective from 1 January 2006. The company had allocated an additional 0.25% of the paybill spend for regional pay adjustments along with further funds to address pay "hotspots".