An­oth­er group of work­ers is be­ing of­fered a 10 per cent wage in­crease.

This, af­ter chief per­son­nel of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Daryl Din­di­al con­firmed that he, yes­ter­day, made a pro­posed wage set­tle­ment of­fer val­ued at $2.6 bil­lion to the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW), struc­tured through a com­bi­na­tion of cash and non-cash ben­e­fits to man­age the State’s fis­cal bur­den.

Din­di­al said the of­fer, which spans a 12-year pe­ri­od, car­ries a re­cur­rent an­nu­al cost of ap­prox­i­mate­ly $250 mil­lion, mak­ing fis­cal re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and pay­ment flex­i­bil­i­ty cen­tral to the ne­go­ti­a­tions.