While they seek to re­solve on­go­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions for em­ploy­ees, the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) said yes­ter­day that salary in­creas­es re­quire per­mis­sion from the high­est lev­el of their or­gan­i­sa­tion.

A me­dia re­lease stat­ed that the cor­po­ra­tion’s Hu­man Re­source Com­mit­tee chaired a meet­ing to dis­cuss wage ne­go­ti­a­tions on Thurs­day.

The wages dis­cussed were for the pe­ri­od be­tween 2011 and 2012.

The re­lease not­ed that the HDC still re­quired ap­proval from “be­yond the lev­el of the board” be­fore any salary in­creas­es or in­cre­ments could be fi­nalised.

“The cor­po­ra­tion must al­so en­sure that it op­er­ates with­in the con­fines of the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer’s (CPO) pa­ra­me­ters, to en­sure the ap­proval for pro­posed pay­ment or buy­out,” the HDC re­port­ed.

The re­lease said the HDC man­ag­ing di­rec­tor re­quest­ed a meet­ing with Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) of­fi­cials and vowed to meet with unions reg­u­lar­ly on the dis­cus­sions.

The HDC al­so main­tained their com­mit­ment to seek­ing the best in­ter­est of em­ploy­ees, re­fer­ring to var­i­ous pro­grammes and team-build­ing ex­er­cis­es aimed at rais­ing morale and im­prov­ing the qual­i­ty of lives for work­ers.