Paragraph 6

The Company will endeavour, should this agreement be required to be used, to implement a shorter working week, i.e. 4 day or 3 day working, before a complete week’s shutdown, if circumstances permit.

Employees who do not receive lay-off pay to which they consider they are entitled can appeal using the Company’s normal grievance procedure, within three months of the day or week in question. However, should there be a “failure to agree” registered after this procedure the employee has the right to arbitration or adjudication by an independent referee or body. This may be done by presenting an appeal to an industrial tribunal that the employer has failed to pay the whole or part of any guaranteed remuneration. No employee will receive less favourable terms of payment under this agreement than he/she would have received under the Government’s guaranteed payment scheme.