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Jaguar: three-year deal secured

Key details

  • Pay award: 4% increase in first year of three-year deal

  • Employees covered (nos.): hourly paid staff (4,608), A–C grade staff (862), D grade staff (1,211)

  • Effective date: 1 November 2006

    • In the first year of a three-year deal negotiated with Amicus, the GMB and the Transport and General Workers' Union, Jaguar has awarded its 4,608 hourly paid employees a 4% across-the-board rise, effective from 1 November 2006.

    Other key elements of the deal include:

  • a one-off £50 lump-sum payment;
  • an increase in the annual holiday bonus to £320 in 2007 for employees on “West Midlands” terms;
  • bereavement leave to be extended to include leave for the death of a grandchild; and
  • an increase in pension contributions from 5% to 5.5% at 1 February 2007 with a further increase to 6% on 1 November 2007.