Accenture pay up

Accenture HR Services January 6 2020

Members in Accenture have voted unanimously to accept a CWU-brokered pay rise that will see the vast majority of those in the union’s bargaining unit receive a fully consolidated 2 per cent increase.

The overwhelming endorsement of the deal in a consultative ballot last month concludes a difficult pay round in which negotiation were conducted against a challenging economic backdrop for the business.

Accenture’s final offer – which equates to 1.75 per cent on the overall pay pot – came after the union’s outright rejection of an initial offer which the negotiating team unanimously agreed was derisory.

Thanking members for supporting the union’s strong recommendation to accept the company’s revised offer,  assistant secretary Dave Jukes said: “I’m absolutely certain that the deal we secured was the best that could be achieved by negotiation alone. We simply could not have pressed Accenture harder in difficult circumstances.”

The 2 per cent increases that most members will receive stacks up well against the current (November) CPI inflation rate of 1.5 per cent – but is fractionally below the RPI inflation measure which currently stands at 2.1 per cent.

Dave concludes: “In last year’s pay talks we had a significant fallout with the company’s negotiators, and the issue had to be escalated – but while  this year’s pay negotiations were businesslike from start to finish it was abundantly clear when the pay talks had reached the end of the road.”

Members’ ratification of the deal means it will be paid in January salaries.