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Introduction

As the UK’s only trade union specialising in construction, UCATT is at the forefront of negotiations concerning your pay, terms and conditions of employment with your employer in all the main agreements covering the construction industry.

The Construction Industry Joint Council agreement sets rates of pay for around 600,000 construction workers on the country’s major building and infrastructure sites. The agreement sets standards for the industry on pay and conditions. UCATT also represents members in a number of other allied trades to the construction industry such as Refractory Users and Steeplejack and Lightning Conductors and the Demolition Industry.
The website will keep you updated with current pay rates and major conditions in agreements which involve UCATT members.

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Construction Industry Joint Council - Sick Pay

A building operative employed under the terms of the Working Rule Agreement will be entitled to industry sick pay as agreed by the Construction Industry Joint Council, this payment is in addition to statutory sick pay.

From 25 June 2007 – £101.09 per week

A total of four weeks industry sick pay will be paid to a building operative who has completed four continuous weeks of employment. After fifteen weeks of continuous employment the operative will be entitled to seven weeks industry sick pay.

After twenty-six continuous weeks of employment the operative will be entitled to a total of ten weeks industry sick pay, this entitlement is based on a rolling 12 month period.To qualify for payment, the operative must notify the employer on the first qualifying day in the period of incapacity or sickness, the first three qualifying days (for which no payment is made) have elapsed and that the limits of payment have not been reached.