WHILE there are no talks ongoing regarding wages and salaries for public servants, the government and the Public Service Union (PSU) are working on improving working conditions for public servants.
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, made this disclosure during his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing on Friday, at the Ministry of the Presidency.
“There are no talks going on right now, but the union and the government are continually engaged in ways of dealing with the terms and conditions of employment of public servants, in terms of not only salaries but non-salary benefits, and some of these non-salary benefits have to do with the training of public servants so that they become upwardly mobile,” Minister Harmon explained.
This week alone, there was the Caribbean Leadership Project (CLP) in Guyana, which brought senior public servants from all across the region in Guyana.
They had an opportunity to interact with the local public servants, so that they have a broader perspective on what is required of them, he said.
There is a special training programme facilitated by the CLP, for deputy permanent secretaries and regional executive officers (REOs).
“Apart from salaries, the non-salary benefits which we are working with for the Public Service Union, all of those will be to the benefit of the public servants themselves,” the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported Minister Harmon as saying.