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Council craft employees: 2.95% basic increase

Key details

Pay award: 2.95% in second year of three-year deal

Employees covered (nos.): local authority craft workers, labourers, chargehands, supervisors and apprentices (41,000)

Effective date: 1 April 2005

The 39,000 craft and associated employees and 2,000 apprentices employed by local councils receive a 2.95% basic pay increase from 1 April 2005, in the second year of a three-year award.

The deal, agreed through a joint negotiating committee of local government employers and unions, also gives a 33% increase to tool allowances and insurance rates, based on 31 March 2004 levels.