Acting PM Hyde also engaged on a number of important topics, including the recent revelation that Ministry CEOs were spared of the 10% pay cut implemented earlier this year. Hyde was the most senior Minister on the Government s negotiating team that was conducting those extended consultations with the Joint Unions, to get them to accept the 10% pay cut. The negotiating team assured the leadership of the joint unions that the financial pain brought on by the reduction of the wage bill would be shared equally among those who are paid from the public purse. In today s issue of the Guardian Newspaper, the Opposition s Party
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Jun 1, 2021
Ten Percent Salary Reduction Takes Effect Today
The Briceño administration is proceeding with the reduction of working hours for public officers effective June fourteenth. This morning, Public Service C.E.O. Rolando Zetina sent a circular memo to the Office of the Governor General, the Chief Justice, the Auditor General, Financial Secretary and several others, including C.E.O.s and heads of departments. As conveyed in government’s letter of clarification, the Joint Unions have approved a reduction of working hours by five hours per week. Likewise, a memo was sent out last Friday by Chief Education Officer Yolanda Gongora to managing authorities in respect of the ten percent salary reductions which came into effect today, in line with the advice and instructions of the Ministry of Finance. The Ministry of Education also reminded managing authorities that attendance records must be clear and accurate, particularly as of May seventeenth, for the days d
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“We have served the public service notice that we will take legal action where our people are being victimized. And, because of the victimization that is happening with termination and transfers, the talks this morning almost broke down and that is why we did not get far. And I want to be clear on that. The talks this morning almost broke down, because of the nonsense that was on tv last night whereby people were being threatened. I am pleased to report that under the good leadership of the three ministers there today we were able to get their commitment that the victimization stops, and it stops now…”