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Vehicle bodybuilders: New minimum rates

Key details

Pay award: skilled worker rate increases to £6.33 an hour

Employees covered (nos.): manuals (5,000)

Effective date: 1 January 2006

New minimum hourly rates for employees in the commercial vehicle bodybuilding sector of the Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association (VBRA) have been agreed, effective from 1 January 2006. As a result, minimum hourly rates have been increased from £4.95 to £5.35 for labourers, from £5.50 to £5.67 for semi-skilled workers, and from £6.15 to £6.33 for skilled workers.