The latest collective bargaining agreement between hotel workers and their bosses saw staff get about a three percent pay increase.

But a number of terms and conditions contained in the agreement have yet to be ironed out.

The news came yesterday from a source inside the Island's hotel industry who declined to be named.

The source disclosed that wages, benefits and gratuity increases were covered in the new agreement, but other terms and clauses were still being worked on.

He added that he expected this work to continue for some time. These terms and clauses, he continued, covered areas such as staff housing, sick leave and vacations.

However, an approximate three percent increase in pay was agreed to as was the extension in maternity leave for hotel employees from nine to ten weeks.

The source also stressed that both sides did a great job in getting an agreement in place so quickly after acrimonious negotiations in the past.

The three-year agreement between the Hotel Employers of Bermuda and the Hotel Division of the Bermuda Industrial Union was hammered out and ratified earlier this month.

Neither side have been willing to discuss terms of the agreement which was the first three-year, standard agreement to be put in place between the two sides since the former one expired in February, 1998.

During the interim period a one-year agreement was put in place after the two sides failed to overcome a series of sticking points and Government stepped in to order binding arbitration between them.