Wages and Salaries

Wages and Salary standards and Operative holidays

In addition to its role as a trade association, BESA has a parallel role as an employers’ organisation.

It is in this role that BESA publishes standard wage rates for hourly-paid, site-based Operatives which are negotiated on behalf of employers with the trade union, Unite, and salaries for staff employees, which are negotiated with the staff association, EESA (a white-collar section of Unite).

Equally, there are actions in relation to employment affairs and human resources issues which the Association undertakes in its role as the sector's representative body to Government, the Confederation of British Industry and other key national and international organisations.

Operative holidays

The 2021 Holidays for Operatives leaflets for England & Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

England and Wales

Scotland

Northern Ireland

wage and salary standards

JCC Letter 127 - Increase in the rate of lodging allowance - 4 October 2021

JCC Letter 126 (Revised) Operative Wage Agreement for 2021-23 effective from 4 Oct 2021

JCC LETTER 125 - INCREASE IN THE RATE OF LODGING ALLOWANCE – 5 OCTOBER 2020

JCC Letter 124 - Appendices 1-3

JCC Letter 123 – Increase in nightly lodging allowance – October 2019

JCC Letter 122 – Increase in the Rate of Lodging Allowance effective from 1 October 2018

JCC Letter 121 - Operative National Agreement Advisory Note in Response to a Recent Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment concerning the Calculation of Holiday Pay

JCC Letter 120 - Phase 2: Operative Wage Agreement for 2018-2020 - effective from 1 October 2018

JCC Letter 119 – Increase in the Rate of Lodging Allowance effective from 2 October 2017

JCC Letter 118 – Increase in the Rate of Lodging Allowance effective from 3 October 2016

JCC Letter 117 - Four-Year, Two-Phase Operative Wage Agreement 2016-2020 –
Phase 1 2016-2018 – Effective from 3 October 2016

JCC Letter 116 - Operative National Agreement: Long-term Pensions Strategy – Introduction of Employee Contributions

JCC Letter 114 – Revision of Appendix ‘C’ of the B&ES Operative National Agreement – with effect from 28 September 2015

JCC Letter 113 – Operative National Agreement – Advisory Note in response to the recent Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment concerning the calculation of holiday pay

JCC Letter 111 – Operative Wage Agreement for 2014-2016, effective from 14 April 2014

JCC Letter 107 Operative National Agreement – Welplan Supplement – Rule E (Welfare Benefits – Entitlement and Payment) – Revision

labour cost recovery definitions & calculators

BESA/RICS dayworks definition of the prime cost of daywork - including Northern Ireland - effective from 4 October 2021

BESA/RICS dayworks definition of the prime cost of daywork - including Northern Ireland - effective from 6 April 2021

BESA/RICS dayworks definition of the prime cost of daywork - including northern Ireland - effective from 6 april 2020

BESA/RICS Dayworks Definition of the prime cost of daywork - including Northern Ireland - effective from 1 February 2020

BESA/RICS Dayworks Definition of the prime cost of daywork - including Northern Ireland - effective from 7 October 2019

BESA/RICS Dayworks Definition of the prime cost of daywork - including Northern Ireland - effective from 6 April 2019

BESA/RICS Dayworks Definition of the prime cost of daywork - including Northern Ireland - effective from 1 October 2018

BESA/RICS Dayworks Definition of the prime cost of daywork - including Northern Ireland - Effective from 6 April 2018

BESA/RICS Definition of the prime cost of Daywork – including Northern Ireland effective from 2 October 2017

ECA RICS electrical Daywork rates

ECA/RICS electrical dayworks April 2021

ECA/RICS electrical dayworks April 2020

salary standards

Two salary standards are given for each grade of the Agreement:

a grade minimum salary for the evaluated grade for and individual employee’s job description; and
a guide salary for a fully competent employee which is intended to be an indicator of the salary paid to an employee who is consistently meeting the full requirements of the job

NJC PROMULGATION 2/21 - REVIEW OF THE EEI STAFF AGREEMENT 2022 - 2023

NJC Promulgation 1/21 Revision of Student Engineers' Salaries from 1 Sept 2021 and 1 Sept 2022

NJC Promulgation 2/18 Review of the Staff Salary Agreement

NJC Promulgation 1/18 – Review of Student Engineers' Salaries effective from 1 September 2018

NJC Promulgation 2/16 - Review of the EEI Staff Salary Agreement - 2017-2018

NJC Promulgation 1/16 – Review of the Student Engineers' Salaries, effective from 1 September 2016

NJC Promulgation 3/14 – 2015-2016 Review of the Staff Salary Agreement