Imposition of 5% public servant pay hike unlawful-Lewis

General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has said that government’s imposition of a 5% across-the-board pay hike for public servants is unlawful as it is against the workers’ collective bargaining rights.

Lewis told Stabroek News in a brief interview yesterday that there is no issue with the 5% increase, only in the manner in which the government has done it.

“It is about how it was done…