The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion has re­mained res­olute in its stance to re­ject the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer’s four per cent of­fer for the pe­ri­od 2014 to 2019.

73 per cent of the Gen­er­al Coun­cil vot­ed to con­tin­ue re­ject­ing the of­fer while 23 per cent vot­ed against.

Mean­while, the as­so­ci­a­tion im­me­di­ate­ly sub­ject­ed the Spe­cial Tri­bunal’s de­ci­sion to im­pos­ing a 10-year set­tle­ment to ju­di­cial re­view.

Hear­ings in the mat­ter be­tween the CPO and the PSA at the Spe­cial Tri­bunal be­gan on May 25th.

The Min­istry of Fi­nance’s Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary, Suzette Tay­lor Lee Chin was sched­uled to take the stand for a sec­ond time last week but couldn’t do so for per­son­al rea­sons.

At the start of this month, the Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion fol­lowed the Po­lice So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion and the T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion in ac­cept­ing the four per cent