SCOTTISH Land and Estates and the NFU Scotland have welcomed the decision by the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board (SAWB) to change the effective date of annual changes to the Scottish agricultural minimum wage rate.
The SAWB has taken the decision to delay its annual wage negotiations until later in the year in order to align it with the new time frame for the national minimum wage and national living wage changes.
The SAWB normally meets in June each year to negotiate the minimum agricultural wage to take effect from October 1.