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05th January 2010
Permanent Secretaries Want More Pay
M.G. George

There may be no industrial disputes between government and government employees hovering on the horizon to date but this in no way means that government employees, especially high level employees, are satisfied with conditions of work and their salaries.
The VOICE has learned that Permanent Secretaries in the various government ministries are agitating for increases in salary.
In fact they have already started negotiations for more pay.
And members of the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force may not be heard making public noises over the non fulfillment of agreements with government but this does in no way mean that they are satisfied.

 
 

Last year they agitated for an increase in their duty allowance and for their technical and vocational allowance to be paid, making quite a stir in the process that got the attention of Prime Minister Stephenson King.
Today members of the Force are quiet but not satisfied. They did receive their duty allowance increase, which is now $400 up from the two hundred and something dollars it once was.
Now they are waiting on government to keep its word on paying them a technical and vocational allowance.
What about the huge back pay watchmen working for the government were supposed to get? They did receive but not what they expected now several of them are angry blaming government, their trade union and others for what they claim was not the amount they were supposed to get.
They want to know where the rest of their money went to.

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