{"id":33106,"date":"2026-11-13T17:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=33106"},"modified":"2026-11-13T17:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:33:19","slug":"presi-ali-says-government-to-honour-salary-increases-under-multi-year-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/presi-ali-says-government-to-honour-salary-increases-under-multi-year-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"Presi Ali says government to honour salary increases under multi-year agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Dr Irfaan Ali has reaffirmed government&#8217;s commitment to honouring salary increases negotiated under existing multi-year agreements with public sector workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Head of State gave the assurance during Friday&#8217;s presidential press conference when questioned about whether government was considering a salary increase for public school teachers before Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Ali said his administration has consistently honoured the agreements it has entered into with workers and their representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He explained that the government remains committed to implementing the salary adjustments payable to the various categories of employees covered by the multi-year arrangements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President emphasised that these commitments will be fulfilled in accordance with the terms of the agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His comments come as public sector workers look ahead to the end of the year and the implementation of outstanding salary provisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While reaffirming government&#8217;s commitment to the negotiated increases, President Ali did not announce an additional salary increase or a separate Christmas payment for teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Dr Irfaan Ali has reaffirmed government&#8217;s commitment to honouring salary increases negotiated under existing multi-year agreements with public sector workers. The Head of State gave the assurance during Friday&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[536,361,350],"tags":[488,448,412,1351,1353],"class_list":["post-33106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-business-and-economy","category-news","tag-488","tag-ncn","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-news","tag-salary-increase"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33108,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33106\/revisions\/33108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}