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Given the current public discourse over the recent recommendations of the the Salaries Review Commission for the country's high office holders and the government's acceptance of same, there's response from the Chief Personnel Officer, the State official who negotiates salaries on behalf of the Government.
Dr. Daryl Dindial was a guest on TV6's Morning Edition.

Transcript
00:00There continues to be controversy in some quarters of the cabinet's decision to accept
00:05the recommendations of the Salaries Review Commission for hefty salary increase for members
00:10of parliament and other high office holders.
00:13The 120th SRC report proposed salary increases for the prime minister, opposition leader,
00:19MPs, members of the judiciary and the police commissioner, among others.
00:24And while the United National Congress, union leaders and others rejected the proposal that
00:29would see the prime minister's salary increase from $59,680 to $87,847 per month and other
00:39MPs including the opposition get an increased salary too, the government accepted the offer.
00:45This in the face of the Chief Personnel Officer offering a wage increase of 4% to public sector
00:50workers.
00:51Well, Dr. Daryl Dindyal broke his silence today and explained what would have happened
00:56if the government did not accept the SRC's recommendations.
01:01The 113th report was later the same time as the 120th report and the 113th report, Marlon,
01:10froze SRC holders' compensation for the years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
01:21So in essence, SRC holders' compensation would have been frozen for nine out of the
01:27last 12 years.
01:29More so, if a decision was made not to accept the recommendations of the 120th report, it
01:36would have meant that SRC holders, and to use a term that the prime minister used when
01:42he briefed the nation recently, the management structure of Toronto Big O would have been
01:47frozen for 15 years out of the last 18, and there are implications for that.
01:53The CPO said a job evaluation committee was also formed.
01:57We also had a job evaluation committee, which encompassed individuals in positions like
02:03permanent secretary, assistant solicitor general, an elected official, in the case of a mayor
02:10at that time, a chairman of a commission, persons of the legal fraternity, staff and
02:16experienced professionals in the CPO's office, and that job evaluation committee, Marlon,
02:23was subject to rigorous training from the consultant.
02:26They had to understand the methodology that the consultant was going to be using.
02:30He added, the SRC is an independent body and it is important to note that the SRC only
02:35takes instructions from the president.
02:37Only the president issues an instruction to the SRC, and after the SRC has completed
02:43whatever exercise that is asked of them, they only report back to the president.
02:49The president then, in the case of the 120th report, that is in the domain now, the public
02:53domain, the president will provide a copy to the Honourable Prime Minister, he will
02:57take that to the cabinet, and soon after, later, in the boathouses.
03:01That's the procedure.
03:02Sharla Kesto, TV6 News.
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