PSA submits salaries petition to King [1]
Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 16:50. Updated on Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 22:23.
A petition to King Tupou VI from the Public Service Association (PSA) was submitted on Tuesday, 12 July, as the PSA continues to push for defering the implementation of new civil salary structures.
PSA Secretary-General Mele 'Amanaki and some of its Executive Board members handed over the petition to Deputy Secretary Siale Puloka at the Palace Office.
"The petition is to defer the new salary structures for civil servants from July 1 this year to July 1, 2017 to allow a review to be completed and grievances of the workers be addressed in accordance with the procedures as prescribed in the Public Service Act," she stated.
PSA stated 476 public servants signed the petition, which is around 15 percent of the total public servants of around 3,200.
This petition comes after Cabinet had initially turned down PSA’s petition submitted to the Prime Minister Hon ‘Akilisi Pohiva on June 29, to defer the salary structures.
On Friday, 8 July Cabinet approved the use of the new salary structures starting from 1 July.
The payment of salaries of civil servants under the new Salary Structure started on Tuesday, 12 July, the same day that the PSA presented their petition to King Tupou VI.