A new revised and amended edition of the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) Working Rule Agreement comes into effect from today 1st May.

The CIJC Working Rule Agreement is the largest industrial agreement in the construction industry and around 500,000 workers are covered by its terms and conditions.

The new agreement has several significant additions to it including a clear anti-blacklisting rule and a rule forbidding the use of rolled up holiday pay.

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For the first time the agreement includes separate rules for highways maintenance workers which take into account the specific working conditions of these workers.

The revised agreement also includes new rules on how companies should introduce and implement the auto-enrolment pension scheme and provides clarity on how companies should register construction workers with the B&CE's accident and death benefit schemes.

Steve Murphy General Secretary of Construction Union UCATT and the Operatives Secretary of the CIJC, said: "Following long and complex negotiations important changes have been made to the CIJC, in order to ensure that the agreement remains fully relevant to construction workers."

The revised agreement has also tidied up and simplified wording on industrial sick pay and guaranteed minimum earnings. Tower cranes drivers will in future receive the craft pay rate.

(CD)