General secretary of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) Richard Green is maintaining the union’s calls for increased wages for public workers.
However, retired permanent secretary in the Ministry of Labour Elsworth Young and council member of the Barbados Employers’ Confederation (BEC), Gail Springer, say a wages and salaries hike could only lead to more negative impacts.
They are also adamant that productivity has to be increased if more pay is to be provided.
“If you want to retain jobs in the public service you have to produce, that is the reality. The pensions and Government wages bills are climbing all the time,” Young said. (TG)
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These high level managers in Gov make this comment about public servants need to produce…that is such a broad statement especially when they are so many who are producing for themselves and others..people retire, some have been retrenched and weren’t replaced and those in the section working hard to pick up the slack. Give jack his jacket and instead of pulling down all public servants in public deal with the problems. Stop using this as an excuse especially since top managers gine get a wage increase in the form of higher allowance. Inflation over the last 15 years has risen by how much? But salaries by only 5%. How can that be fair?