Premier calls for ‘a little patience’ for payment of outstanding increments
“I've listened to the updates from the Deputy Governor, and I know that he's working hard on it and he's trying his best to ensure that increments are paid in a timely fashion,” Premier Wheatley said in a press conference on July 20, 2023.
“I know that persons have needs, they expect their increments, [but] persons should understand that we are committed to ensuring that they get their increments and just to have just a little more patience,” he added.
The Premier said he believes the Deputy Governor has done a good job of keeping the public updated as it pertains to the progress of payment of increments and has even had conversations among ministries and departments that had challenges getting the increments processed.
More patience needed - Premier Wheatley
“So, I just asked for just a little additional patience on behalf of the Department of Human Resources and the Deputy Governor to get the increments paid,” he reiterated.
The Premier added that it was unfortunate that increments fell behind as far as they did, and that's why his government, as well as the past government, made it a priority to pay increments from as far back as 2016 with the process to 2018 and 2019 payments ongoing now.
“We're going to continue to ensure that we meet our obligations to our public servants who have worked hard and worked through a very difficult period and of course, it's not for me to say but, because it falls under the Governor, Deputy Governor…
“But I know we have to have more conversations about how we hold persons accountable and how we recognise exceptional service and things like cost of living increases over a period of time,” he said.
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24 Responses to “Premier calls for ‘a little patience’ for payment of outstanding increments”
1. Would the government ever pay the arrears for the remaining three years?
2. When will workers' salaries be moved the three steps up?
3. When would we hear the final decision with regards to the salary review?
2. If increments are an obligation, why is the process for funding them so cumbersome in paying them?
3. Has funding been authorized and appropriated for paying increments?
4. Was the Governor’s office /HR slow off the mark and ill-prepared in paying increments?
5. Did the Governor’s office put paying a low priority on paying increment?
6. Should the payroll system be modernized to facilitate paying step increases, bonuses, COLA adjustments, etc?
7. Should the increment system be revamped, eg, paid on accrual, ie, paid in real time when earned?
8. Are all public servants entitled to increments? If so does the automatic entitlement kill the drive to perform at the top level?
9. Should public pay increases be limited to Cola, performance appraisals ratings, longevity step increases based on performance and behaviour, job reclassifications, accretions of duties, etc?
We didn't need that big show with carnival right the corner.
Waste of money.
I could of got 1 or 2 increments out of what you spent on that.
You can do much better than this.
Government needs to start holding funds raising events. Whereby all funds collected will go.towards events like such