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The Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) says it expects to get feedback from the Ministry of Finance this week to proposals it made at the last meeting on the public sector compensation restructuring exercise.
JCTU President Helene Davis Whyte says despite the lengthy discussion, she believes progress is being made.
However, she admitted that "there are still some sticking points in terms of how the government proposes to treat with groups that are in the middle band...of the new salary structure".
She hopes the ministry will soon come to a position that the JCTU "can consider to be acceptable" so the review process can move forward.
Mrs Davis Whyte was a guest Thursday on the Morning Agenda on Power 106.
Unions were recently informed that the target for finalising discussions on the compensation review is the second quarter of this year.
But Oneil Grant, President of the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCTU), believes the Finance Ministry's decision to speak to unions individually, is slowing the compensation review negotiations.
The ministry is negotiating with 49 bargaining groups representing public sector workers, and according to Mr. Grant, that means the ministry is being asked 49 separate questions and must give individual responses.
"They are not putting everybody together and answering the questions in one shot; it's being treated in a serial fashion and I think... that is what is causing the slow reaction by the ministry," he argued.
The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) has complained that the Finance Ministry has gone silent and the organisation is yet to receive a response several months after it took issue with the initial proposals coming out of the review.
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