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Sawmilling NJC: new minima set for 2004


Key details

  • Pay award: rates rise by 3%

  • Employees covered (nos.): woodcutting machinists, labourers and apprentices (15,000)

  • Effective date: 1 January 2004

    Minimum pay rates in the imported timber sawmilling industry have been increased by 3%, effective from the first full pay week in January 2004. The uplift was agreed at the industry's national joint council (NJC), following negotiations between the National Sawmilling Association, representing employers, and the GMB and TGWU trade unions, representing the industry's 15,000 workers.