Labelling government’s one-off bonus of $25,000 for public servants earning under $500,000 per month as meagre, the GPSU yesterday called on the government to resume unfinished negotiations for 2016.
In a statement at a press conference yesterday, the GPSU said the announcement last week by Finance Minister Winston Jordan that public servants earning less than $500,000 per month are to be paid a “one-off, tax-free bonus of $25,000.00” comes against the backdrop of continuing uncertainty over the status of unfinished wages and salaries negotiations between the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) and the Government of Guyana.
“Frankly, the Union finds the meagre ‘Christmas freck’ gesture – not least the Finance Minister’s quixotic and decidedly indelicate remark that the paltry sum will help
