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Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says on­ly the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) will re­ceive back­pay pay­ments this year.

Tan­coo made the com­ment out­side Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day, as he ad­dressed con­cerns by the Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers’ Union (CG­WU), who has called on the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) to en­sure at least some of the ar­rears owed to their mem­bers fol­low­ing com­plet­ed col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing agree­ments are paid in cash on or be­fore De­cem­ber 22.

Their re­quest comes af­ter it was an­nounced the PSA would get part of their back­pay in cash be­fore Christ­mas.