A trade union leader has asked Finance Minister Larry Howai to itemise the 66 collective agreements settled by the government so far, the costs of those settlements and government?s total expenditure on wages and salaries.?In a letter dated July 4, Dave Smith, General Secretary of the National Workers Union (NWU) has also asked the minister to publish its cost estimates of interim agreements the government has entered into and the parties with which they have been entered.?Smith cited claims by Planning and Sustainable Development Minister Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie that government had settled 66 out of 75 collective agreements for workers at a cost of some $8 billion.?
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He wrote: ?As you should be aware the government only negotiates through its Chief Personnel Officer, with those unions that represent specific groups of workers. Some of these workers include: public service, police service, prisons service, teaching service, fire service, government daily paid etc. These workers are certainly not covered by 75 collective agreements.??Do the 66 negotiations include those in the private sector, public service, statutory authorities and state enterprises, which were settled whether bilaterally or through Industrial Court arbitration??Smith asked for clarification of the settlement figure.?
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He said while Tewarie had repored that the negotiations had been settled at a cost of $8 billion, Howai, in his presentation to the Parliament during debate on the Finance (Supplementary Appropriation) (Financial Year 2013) Bill 2013 said approximately $1.8 billion of the $2.8 billion approved by Parliament has been allocated for settlement of wages and salaries for 2008-2010 collective agreements as well as ?interim settlements? for the 2011-2013 bargaining period.?He also noted that in the Review of the Economy 2012 government expenditure on salaries and wages was expected to increase to $7.5 billion as a result of the settlement of some negotiations which ?have since been paid?.?
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?According to Dr Tewarie?s statement 66 negotiations were settled at the cost of $8 billion, but the government?s figures say that the entire wage and salary bill of the government was expected to be $7.5 billion in 2012.??The Estimates of Recurrent Expenditure for 2012-2013 budgeted for a government wage and salary bill at $8.6 billion. The difference between the 2012 and 2013 figures for government?s wage and salary bill is $1.1 billion, but you went back to Parliament for $1.8 billion to settle negotiations. This is $700 million more than the budgeted figure,? Smith wrote.?He added: ?You made reference to ?interim settlements? for the period 2011-2013. Collective agreements are settled when unions and managements sign off on the texts which are then registered in the Industrial Court and become legally binding documents. What are these ?interim settlements? and with whom have they been made??
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