Staff at Telegraph Media Group, which owns The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, will receive a 3 per cent pay rise in their pay packets this month after the management decided to circumvent annual pay negotiations.
Journalists are asking for a rise of 5.8 per cent – the same amount cited as the ‘real rate of inflation’for middle class families in a front-page Daily Telegraph story on 4 December.
Managers broke the news at a NUJ meeting before Christmas to decide whether Saturday shifts should be compulsory. Strike action was averted when the company offered a one-off £5,000 incentive for voluntary weekend work.
But staff were then told that because the discussions had taken so long, there would be no annual pay negotiations.
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Father of chapel John Carey said: ‘We were still trying to resolve the whole issue of Saturday working and when we agreed the deal they suddenly announced that they would be awarding a 3 per cent pay rise.
‘We can’t stop them putting 3 per cent into people’s pay packets, but we want to make it clear that the chapel does not agree with the deal.’A TMG spokesman said: ‘Despite difficult market conditions, the Telegraph Media Group will award its staff a 3 per cent pay rise this year. We have informed the NUJ that we are prepared to make this year one of a three-year deal and we are happy to negotiate this with them.”co
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