Virgin Atlantic has paid £1.7 million to hundreds of part-time cabin crew staff after discovering it had underpaid them for years.
Amicus said the 350, mainly women, were being paid for 103 days a year even though they worked 126 days.
The discrepancy was raised nine years ago by a female worker at the airline but an agreement has only just been reached, the union said.
Amicus said it had threatened to take legal action but the claim has now been settled out of court.
General secretary Derek Simpson said: "This is a great outcome for hundreds of hard-working mothers on low pay who do a job with considerable responsibilities in challenging times in the aviation industry."
Virgin Atlantic said: "We were inadvertently underpaying a small number of our part-time cabin crew and, as soon as we discovered this, we worked in changing our procedures."
Monday September 20, 2004
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