The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has re­ject­ed what Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer Ret’d Com­man­der Dr Daryl Din­di­al de­scribed as the Gov­ern­ment’s “best and fi­nal of­fer” to set­tle out­stand­ing pub­lic sec­tor ar­rears and is in­stead propos­ing more cash pay­ments and full cash set­tle­ments for re­tirees.

The ne­go­ti­a­tions cov­er the pe­ri­od 2014 to 2016 and 2017 to 2019.

In a mes­sage to mem­bers yes­ter­day, PSA pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas said the as­so­ci­a­tion re­ject­ed both an ini­tial pro­pos­al made on Jan­u­ary 30 and a re­vised of­fer pre­sent­ed dur­ing dis­cus­sions last Fri­day.