PHILIPSBURG–The Committee of Civil Servants Unions (CCSU), formally known as the GOA, submitted a request to Prime Minister Leona Romeo-Marlin on Wednesday for an eleven per cent cost of living adjustment (COLA) to be paid to government workers.
CCSU members stated in their request that Ministers and civil servants had been required to deliver under extraordinary circumstances directly after the passing of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
“Civil servants came to work every day to produce the work necessary for the day-to-day running of the governmental apparatus as the country found itself in a trying period with limited capacities and resources. Unfortunately, for the last six years the salaries of civil servants have not been indexed based on the applicable cost of living adjustments (COLA) of 11 per cent, not including 2018,” the group said late last night.
Taking into consideration and acknowledging that since the opening of the tourism season there are strong signs of economic improvement with the return of major cruise lines and the reopening of pivotal commerce in the country, it is now time to reopen the discussion of a salary adjustment, the group said.
The CCSU said it had made two different proposals to the Prime Minister as to how the COLA could be paid out to civil servants and made it clear that the CCSU is willing to sit with government and together come up with a workable proposal for both parties.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/84902-committee-of-civil-servants-unions-wants-11-cola-paid-to-workers
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