Tag: civil service

Civil servants to get more time with newborns

Civil servants to get more time with newborns

| 13/03/2024 | 38 Comments

(CNS): New mothers who work for the civil service will in future enjoy an additional four weeks of maternity leave, up from 90 working days to 110, with an increase in the paid portion from 30 working days on normal pay to 60 days. New fathers will now get 20 working days of paternity leave, […]

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CS ‘union’ looking for new leaders to fight for fairness

CS ‘union’ looking for new leaders to fight for fairness

| 22/01/2024 | 33 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Civil Service Association (CICSA), the nearest thing the country has to a workers union, is asking interested members to put themselves forward for several leadership vacancies ahead of its rescheduled Annual General Meeting next month. The association is looking to elect a new vice president, treasurer and director. CICSA President Clara […]

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Ministers paid an average of over $305k per year

Ministers paid an average of over $305k per year

| 27/11/2023 | 112 Comments

(CNS): Members of the Cabinet earned CI$3.3 million, about $305,000 each on average in 2022, the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) has revealed in a new public interest report. Government ministers were not the only senior public sector employees to take home salaries and benefits that the average resident can only dream of; other members […]

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Civil servants getting one-off payment of $1,500

Civil servants getting one-off payment of $1,500

| 24/11/2023 | 124 Comments

(CNS): Core government workers will be getting an additional CI$1,500 in their December pay packets to help with the cost of living and to reward their contributions. Premier Juliana O’Connor-Connolly said the cash payments were being funded by the efficiencies and savings made this year in public spending. The new leader told parliament that the […]

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Premier says civil service must stop growing

Premier says civil service must stop growing

| 11/09/2023 | 150 Comments

(CNS): Premier Wayne Panton has said the civil service headcount cannot continue to grow at the current pace and that a request for 1,100 new posts in the upcoming budget would not be fulfilled. He said there would be no job cuts in this coming spending plan and that the government finances remain solid, but […]

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Local civil servants take up key ministry posts

Local civil servants take up key ministry posts

| 25/07/2023 | 17 Comments

(CNS): The Ministry of Border Control and Labour has confirmed a new deputy chief officer and two senior policy officers. Danielle Roberts was confirmed as DCO in May, having been chosen over a dozen other Caymanians who applied for the senior job. Meanwhile, Rolna DaCosta and Justin Hislop have been appointed as senior policy officers.

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Civil servants could get 13% raise over 3 years

Civil servants could get 13% raise over 3 years

| 05/05/2023 | 81 Comments

(CNS): Chris Saunders (BTW), now an independent MP who sits on the opposition benches, managed to steer through his private member’s motion calling for a significant increase in government workers’ wages last week, something he had sought to support in the budget preparations before he lost his job as finance minister. The government agreed to […]

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CBC pay inequities addressed, says minister

CBC pay inequities addressed, says minister

| 02/03/2023 | 8 Comments

(CNS): Four years after the immigration department and customs merged into the Customs and Border Control Service (CBC), some officers will be getting a pay rise to regularise all staff salaries, which is part of a commitment management had made to resolve the pre-merger salary inequities within the services. Officials said in a press release […]

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Public service faces new rules for election campaigns

Public service faces new rules for election campaigns

| 06/12/2022 | 22 Comments

(CNS): An administrative circular has been issued to all public servants setting out the rules regarding their work and decision-making during the “Period of Election Sensitivity”. Public sector workers have been given guidance on how issues such as negotiations, consultations and the use of government resources for political purposes should be handled from Nomination Day […]

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OAG urges CJ to tackle 3-year delay on court efficiency

OAG urges CJ to tackle 3-year delay on court efficiency

| 13/10/2022 | 24 Comments

(CNS): Judicial Administration has made very little progress over the last three years on recommendations by the Public Accounts Committee to improve the efficiency and value for money of the local court system. Auditor General Sue Winspear has urged the new chief justice to take on the recommendations as soon as possible because only three […]

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Suspended civil servants mostly from law enforcement

Suspended civil servants mostly from law enforcement

| 22/09/2022 | 36 Comments

(CNS): Nine of the thirteen public servants who were on required leave from the civil service in March this year, on full pay, as a result of pending criminal cases or internal probes were from law enforcement agencies. In response to a freedom of information request by CNS, the Portfolio of the Civil Service released […]

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