Public Officers’ Retirement Benefits Looked At

Today, another subcommittee was formed to look at the retirement of public officers from the service. The Minister of the Public Service, Henry Usher says this will look at improving the efficiency with which public officers receive their retirement benefits. In addition, he said that the classification of the grading of public service positions is being investigated.

 

Henry Usher, Minister of the Public Service

“Quite often in the media, we’ve heard about persons not getting their gratuity or their pension to time, and we’ve been putting a lot of effort on that, but we wanted to more focus on that to make sure that when public officers retire, that they can get their benefits more efficiently. So, those are some of the areas we discussed today. We also looked at a recent review that was done. By a consultant that was brought in by the IDB to look at the modernization and the classification the grading of our public service positions and I think that is very important we shared that report with the union and I’m sure that we will have a further discussion on that at the next meeting.”