'Salary demands need a reality check'

WHISPERS HAVE reached FTW about freight industry staff members laying down demands for 30% salary increases - protesting that the normal rate of increase in recent years has just not kept them in pace with inflation. To see if this was an industry trend - and whether such an increase level was justified - FTW approached two of the well-known names in freight sector staff recruitment, Lee Botti of Lee Botti & Associates and Lynn Ribton-Turner of Ribton-Turner Recruitment.