Akash Sama­roo

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has sub­mit­ted a coun­ter­pro­pos­al to the State, seek­ing to have part of the non-cash com­po­nent of the back­pay owed to its mem­bers pro­vid­ed through food cards, fu­el as­sis­tance and oth­er ben­e­fits.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands the union has for­mal­ly re­spond­ed to the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer’s (CPO) “best and fi­nal of­fer”, which pro­posed that 40 per cent of the out­stand­ing ar­rears be paid in cash and the re­main­ing 60 per cent through non-cash ben­e­fits.