Employees of the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) will now benefit from a 20% increase as the local consortium and three trade unions yesterday signed a multi-year collective bargaining agreement.
Expected to cover the next four years, the agreement sees the salaries being given to the lowest band of employees moving from $49,714 to a new minimum of $60,000.
It was noted that the agreement comes as a direct result of the correspondence and discussion held between the three unions, namely the
