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| Monday, 12 January 2004 |
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by Bharatha Malawaraarachchi A decisive meeting will be held today between Treasury officials and Health Services Trade Union Alliance (HSTUA) to find a settlement to the prolonged dispute over salary anomalies that has bedevilled the health sector for months. "This is a decisive meeting and if the discussion fails, we will resort to trade union action," an HSTUA spokesman Saman Rathnapriya told the Daily News. He said failure to reach a settlement at today's discussion would force the HSTUA to stage an islandwide token strike on Wednesday. "There are some agreements reached over certain issues and these should be implemented together with our three demands," he added. The HSTUA is demanding the Government to eliminate the salary anomaly in one stroke, back date this decision to be effective from January 01, 1997 and payment of arrears commencing from July 2003. However, a Health Ministry spokesman said the Cabinet had paid attention to health sector salary anomalies and taken steps to resolve the anomaly by increasing salaries in three stages. The Cabinet decision seeks to increase health employees' salaries in three stages in 2004, 2005 and 2006. |
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