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August 30, 2002
Government coughs up another chunk as retro pay case returns to GSB
The rumours are true. Management Board Secretariat has announced that OPSEU members in the OPS will soon get another chunk of the retroactive pay that the government has owed them since May 5.
The move comes - probably not by coincidence - as OPSEU takes the issue in front of the Grievance Settlement Board (GSB) today in Toronto.
According to Elizabeth McKnight, Acting Director of Corporate Labour Relations, the Sept. 12 paycheque will pay all active employees the 3.5 per cent retroactive pay they are owed for the period from July 8 to Aug. 18. All classified employees in the Corrections category who are at the top of their
pay range will receive an additional five per cent on top of their regular earnings for the period from Jan. 1 to Aug. 18.
The two payments mean OPSEU members will still only have received a fraction of the money they are owed.
“Like the government’s move to pay out some of the retro pay on the Aug. 1 paycheque, this latest lurch forward still fails to pay out special case adjustments, the one per cent owing to non-corrections workers who are at the top of their pay grid, the pay in lieu of benefits owing to all
unclassified employees, and the five per cent owing to unclassified Corrections employees who are at the top of the grid,” said OPSEU president Leah Casselman.
“We see once again that this employer only responds when threatened with action by the union,” she said. “We will continue to do everything we can to get this government to pay up now, with interest.”
Check the web: www.opseu.org has the latest on everything.
Original authorized for distribution by Leah Casselman, President
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