Some 69,000 public sector employees including members of the disciplined services and government pensioners received their 10 per cent across-the-board increase last week, while over 12,000 members of the disciplined services received their year-end one-month bonus yesterday with the total disbursed amounting to $19.8 billion, a Ministry of Finance release stated.
The payments followed the conclusion of the historic Government of Guyana (GoG) and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) agreement.
The release noted that it was in October, following the conclusion of the Government of Guyana and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) multi-year agreement on salaries and non-salaries benefits for teachers covering the period 2024 to 2026, that teachers were also paid a 10 per cent salary increase, amounting to over 14,000 educators receiving an additional $2.5 billion.