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Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas has again called on the Gov­ern­ment to keep its promise of a 10 per cent salary in­crease in next month’s na­tion­al bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion.

“Ten per cent is not four per cent, and we ex­pect it to be de­liv­ered,” Thomas said yes­ter­day, af­ter the PSA for­mal­ly signed the set­tle­ment agree­ment with the man­age­ment of the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIB), end­ing a long-run­ning le­gal bat­tle over the nine per cent salary in­crease and ar­rears owed to near­ly 950 cur­rent and for­mer em­ploy­ees for the 2014–2016 pe­ri­od.

Thomas al­so stressed that the PSA re­mains com­mit­ted to en­sur­ing work­ers’ rights are pro­tect­ed in the wake of re­cent dis­missals of Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) work­ers.