Latest update February 24th, 2025 9:02 AM
Proposed 8% pay hike for Council employees
Employees who are members of the Guyana Local Government Officers Union can anticipate an eight per cent increase in their salaries retroactive to January 2014. This Union represents employees who are on the fixed establishment of Mayor and City Council.
This agreement to grant the increase in wages was reached after a rigid deliberation between union representatives and the committee set up by the Council to address wages negotiating.
City Hall
This chairman of the GLGOU Mr. Dale Beresford proposed a 12 per cent increase in wages for members of his union. However the negotiating team did not agree to the union’s proposal, an amicable consensus of eight per cent was agreed upon by the two sides.
Union President, Dale Beresford said that the union considered the constraint under which its members operate, and the fact that the Council benefits from the services of officer who are well qualified.
He said that the average Officer has a diploma from the University of Guyana. Beresford said, “Many employees discharge their duties with competence and diligence and often work beyond the call of duty”.
Beresford noted that the proposal of the union is premises on inflation, the financial constraints of the Council and the economic down turn in the Country. Dale Beresford noted that he was happy the Council did not breech the International Labour Convention on Bargaining for wages and salaries for employees.
The chairman of Council’s negotiation committee Mr. Oscar Clarke Council said that increased wages and salaries are not the only benefits an employee receives. He further noted that negotiations must be done holistically taken into the account the performance of the economy.
Clarke stated that wages and salaries is not the only expenditure of the Municipality. He further stated that even as the union bargain for increase wages Council must receive value for monies.
Town Clerk, Royston King, said that Council is working at a different pace; he further stated that the Council is at a juncture where it demands excellence. King said, “The union has a responsibility to implore it members at all levels to improve their service to the Municipality and the Citizens in general”.
King and Union President Dale Beresford, have agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding to address the training and information needs of the employees in social areas such suicide prevention and domestic violence.
Beresford noted that these social issues have a negative effect on the work force and can adversely affect production. The Union and Administration of the Council agreed to use the Guyana Local Government Officer ground and Hall for sports and staff training.
Wage negotiations for 2015 are scheduled to commence before the end of the year.
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