JCTU President Helene Davis Whyte - Gleaner file photo
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By Warren Bertram
Helene Davis Whyte, President of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU), says the delay in payments of increments and allowances owed to public sector workers is to be discussed at the next meeting with the Finance Minister.
Mrs. Davis Whyte said government had given instructions that increments should not be paid over the next three years as part of public sector compensation restructuring.
But she said this would affect morale of employees as well as the pension of those set to retire within that period.
"We continue to maintain that increments are performance-based, and if you have it such that workers will not receive their increments, which they would have gotten as a result of good performance, then workers would be totally demotivated and performance in the government sector would be affected," she complained.
"Also, when you don't pay the increments that are due, you have persons who are set for retirement, that their pensions would be calculated on a lower figure than it should actually be. So we have made clear that we are not in support of that instruction that went out," Mrs. Davis Whyte said.
She was speaking Thursday on the Morning Agenda on Power 106.
She said the meeting with the Finance Ministry had been scheduled for Thursday but had to be postponed until early next week.
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