HOPES that negotiations over public sector pensions will remain amicable do not mean the review’s working party is not prepared to make tough decisions, a member has claimed.

SINCE publication in early 2008 of the Robinson report on the role of the States as employer, the conduct of the Public Sector Remuneration Committee – government’s pay negotiator – has been under intense scrutiny.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT yesterday that agreement has finally been reached with the airport firefighters over the long-running and probably most costly dispute in Guernsey’s history ought to be a cause for celebration.

SOME States employees may face a pay freeze next year.

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 [...]

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