Post by Logan on Apr 6, 2016 3:47:44 GMT -6
Mapp Administration Wants Government Employees To Give Up Retroactive Pay For Salary Increases
ST. CROIX — The Mapp administration, through its chief negotiator and head of the Office of Collective Bargaining, Attorney Natalie Nelson Tang How, above, is asking unions to relinquish their rights to retroactive pay that the Government of the Virgin Islands owes its employees in order to receive the salary increases promised by Governor Kenneth Mapp, sources with knowledge of the negotiations between the unions and Ms. Tang How have confirmed to The Consortium.
The Senate recently passed and Mr. Mapp has signed into law a measure that makes available some $19 million to fund the promised salary increases, which will bring government employees’ salaries closer to what they’re supposed to earn in 2016 — but not completely up to step.
These sources, who chose anonymity because they were not authorized to speak, said that Ms. Tang How is asking union representatives to sign a document that would release the G.V.I. from the over $300 million it owes government employees for salary increases that don’t match 2016 levels. Some departments, for example, will only be brought to levels that they should have been receiving in 2012.
Last year, former O.C.B. Chief Negotiator Dr. Valdemar A. Hill, Jr. told senators who make up the Committee on Finance that the G.V.I. owed some of its current and former employees over $300 million in retroactive pay dating back 1989.
Read more: viconsortium.com/business/mapp-administration-wants-government-employees-give-retro-pay-salary-increases/
ST. CROIX — The Mapp administration, through its chief negotiator and head of the Office of Collective Bargaining, Attorney Natalie Nelson Tang How, above, is asking unions to relinquish their rights to retroactive pay that the Government of the Virgin Islands owes its employees in order to receive the salary increases promised by Governor Kenneth Mapp, sources with knowledge of the negotiations between the unions and Ms. Tang How have confirmed to The Consortium.
The Senate recently passed and Mr. Mapp has signed into law a measure that makes available some $19 million to fund the promised salary increases, which will bring government employees’ salaries closer to what they’re supposed to earn in 2016 — but not completely up to step.
These sources, who chose anonymity because they were not authorized to speak, said that Ms. Tang How is asking union representatives to sign a document that would release the G.V.I. from the over $300 million it owes government employees for salary increases that don’t match 2016 levels. Some departments, for example, will only be brought to levels that they should have been receiving in 2012.
Last year, former O.C.B. Chief Negotiator Dr. Valdemar A. Hill, Jr. told senators who make up the Committee on Finance that the G.V.I. owed some of its current and former employees over $300 million in retroactive pay dating back 1989.
Read more: viconsortium.com/business/mapp-administration-wants-government-employees-give-retro-pay-salary-increases/