Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween the State and the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion are con­tin­u­ing in good faith, while Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer Ret’d Com­man­der Dr Daryl Din­di­al main­tains that the Gov­ern­ment’s “best and fi­nal of­fer” on out­stand­ing pub­lic sec­tor ar­rears re­mains un­changed de­spite the union’s re­jec­tion of the pro­pos­al.

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.