Around 300 members of blue and white-collar unions at the Kimberly-Clark Australia Millicent Mill are set to receive a pay rise.

The SE Voice understands the rank-and-file employees will receive an annual pay rise of 3% for the coming three years.

According to mill insiders, this sum is well ahead of the first offer made by the company.

The current two-year enterprise bargaining agreement expired at the end of 2020 and it was “rolled over” for a further 12 months on similar terms with the consent of all parties.

It has long been the policy of KCA management to refrain from public comment while such wage negotiations are under way.

The SE Voice sought comment from KCA management on the latest pay deal and received this response from Sydney-based KCA communications and government relations director Annelise Tregoning.

“We continue to negotiate on the 2022 Enterprise Agreement and therefore we are not in a position to comment at this stage,” Ms Tregoning said.

The interests of about 300 workers at the Millicent Mill are represented by three different unions.

The remaining 100 workers are either contractors or KCA staff.

In other KCA news, one of its senior Millicent managers has been hailed as a “COVID Hero” in a series of articles published by an Adelaide newspaper.

Distribution centre manager Ryan Turner was lauded for his onerous role of dealing with record production levels of toilet paper due to the nationwide COVID-related panic buying almost two years ago.

Mr Turner has spent the past 25 years at the plant and risen through the ranks.