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Monday, July 08, 2013HORACE Dalley, the minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and Planning, says the Government will make a new wage and fringe benefits offer to the police this week.Giving his presentation in the Sectoral Debate last week at Gordon House, Dalley said that based on the economic climate, he, his boss, Dr Peter Phillips and Minister of National Security Peter Bunting had agreed on making the offer.“We have been in discussions, but we will make a formal offer,” he said, noting that the talks had never been hostile. He acknowledged that there were still nine groups of government workers who had not yet signed the Heads of Agreement with the Government, which includes a three-year freeze on negotiated pay increases up to 2016.Dalley listed the nine as – the five police groups, the Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ), the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA), the Association of Government Medical Consultants (AGMC), and the Academic Staff Association of the University of Technology (UTech).There was no mention of the air traffic controllers represented by the Jamaica Air Traffic Controllers Association (JATCA), who staged a two-day sick out recently in furtherance of their demand for improvements in pay and working conditions.Dalley’s omission of the dispute with the air traffic controllers raised some eyebrows, as they are the only group to have taken industrial action in furtherance of their claims, by staging a two-day sick-out in June.
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Dalley promises police new pay offer this week
