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Labour Minister Leroy Baptiste says the government has made good on its promise, delivering what he calls a budget for the people, one that restores dignity to public service workers after twelve years without a wage increase.

Tv6's Nicole M Romany has more.
Transcript
00:00Labor Minister Leroy Batiste tells the Morning Edition that under the previous administration,
00:06public servants endured years of hardship.
00:09He says for too long, workers were barely getting by.
00:13With a 10% increase promised during the election campaign,
00:18now delivered by the Prime Minister and her government,
00:21their standard of living is finally set to improve.
00:24We are talking about 2013 and we are now in 2025.
00:28For the last 12 years, they actually had no increase at all.
00:34And then you're speaking about the rising cost of living.
00:37The workers, the public officers are literally existing as the working poor.
00:44They are unable to make ends meet.
00:47This here is an attempt to, one of the principles that this government adhere to is decent work
00:55and trying to achieve what we call a living wage.
01:00So this is a step in the right direction.
01:01The Labor Minister also notes that the business community has welcomed the 2025-2026 fiscal package,
01:10including both the incentives and the new taxes.
01:14He adds that the government has, in effect, given the nation a moment to breathe,
01:20a chance to exhale a long-overdue sigh of relief.
01:24They understand that we are talking about fear.
01:28It's F-A-I-R.
01:32You know, they have the embeds, fear was F-E-A-R.
01:38Now it's F-A-I-R.
01:41And that fairness, the business community, we know will join us
01:45to share in the burden of transformation.
01:47Minister Batiste also addresses the government's plan to fill vacancies across the public service,
01:59emphasising efforts to strengthen the workforce capacity and efficiency.
02:04They have just refused to fill vacancies within the public service.
02:09and you create a situation where they then bar talk or ill-speak the public service
02:15and say, hey, they're underperforming, they're, you know, that they're inefficient.
02:20Yes.
02:21When people, you know, 70%, more than half of the positions in the public service, they're vacant.
02:27So what the Prime Minister would have committed to would have been,
02:31and she mentioned it, at least there are over 20,000 positions.
02:34We have to make them available for our citizens.
02:37Batiste says the government is committed to creating well-defined, meaningful employment
02:44as part of its broader effort to strengthen the public service
02:48and improve the standard of living for citizens.
02:51Nicole M. Romani, TV6 News.
02:54Now, if you get better if at least what they're doing in this,
02:59if you get better in this video that make them be able to increase connection to the public service
03:00of the
03:10In-diality, they're remote- inches, right?
03:11In-diality, we have to avoid danger, right?
03:13The Prime Minister will never leave it to use the Simple Continuity.
03:15The Prime Minister will never leave it to everybody.
03:17So that's what we get to do in this video that says…
03:18Oh, let's do it again!
03:20I'll have to try to make it sometimes.
03:21Off-heak without director, okay,
03:21text at the end anymore,
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