COMMENTS by this newspaper yesterday that the RPI-plus settlement for the States manual staff was not a good deal for the taxpayer may well also come to apply to the employees themselves.

MORE than half a year after they should have had a pay rise, Guernsey’s 1,000 manual staff know that they are to receive a 5% increase plus enhancements that lifts the settlement above the RPI threshold. It is not the near-8% the union side was demanding but islanders will consider it a pretty fair deal [...]

TREASURY is braced for demands for more money from departments to cover this year’s pay deals.

STATES manual workers were yesterday awarded an above RPI pay rise of 5% for this year.

THE Public Sector Remuneration Committee shocked union representatives yesterday when they revealed more details of its pay offer for the first time.