Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo and Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer Dr Daryl Din­di­al are main­tain­ing the State’s of­fer on the out­stand­ing pub­lic sec­tor back­pay, af­ter the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) re­ject­ed what the Gov­ern­ment de­scribed as its “best and fi­nal of­fer” for the set­tle­ment of ar­rears.

The ne­go­ti­a­tions in­volve salary pe­ri­ods cov­er­ing 2014-2016 and 2017-2019 and have be­come a ma­jor point of con­tention be­tween the union and the State.

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