Operative rates are frozen until October 2010

The HVCA has reached agreement with the operatives’ trade union Unite on the terms of a wage agreement effective 5 October 2009.

Hourly rates and allowances will be held at their current (ie 6 October 2008) level, but will increase by 2% in October 2010, when employers will also become liable to pay a pension contribution of 1% of basic earnings above the primary earnings threshold.

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Electrical and Mechanical Contractor