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Expressing how unimpressed it is with the provisions made in this year’s budget, the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has identified recommendations needed to be implemented for the benefit of public servants.GPSU head, Patrick Yarde, reiterated calls for policy implementations which he said are needed to ease the woes of public servants. Previously, he spoke on the policies of state sectors which he believes seem to squander taxpayers’ money and making survival for state workers overbearing.GPSU President Patrick Yarde“There is an obsession by the Government to depreciate permanent and sustainable jobs in the Public Service and replace them with contracted employees.”Speaking about an apparent influx of contract workers, Yarde said, “Their policy of undermining workers’ security of tenure as well as the implicit institutional memory of public service personnel is shortsighted, narrow and anti national. This backward political approach in dealing with the essential national workforce must be eradicated.”On the issue of public sector modernization, the union head insisted that funds be made available to continue and complete the Public Sector Modernisation Project with specific focus on certain areas.“This is an enlightened and scientific way to develop and maintain access to quality public service that is relevant and supportive to the consumer needs and broad base national development,” Yarde posited.There needs to be more job creation, he suggested. “Initiating projects that would contribute to creating sustainable and quality jobs should be primary focal point of all national budgets which must have as main feature initiatives encouraging entrepreneurship and self employment facilitation and development.”“The GPSU believes that it is shameful that after working for so many years in persistent poverty, senior citizens and retirees should be condemned to abject poverty, while in retirement.GPSU had proposed for inclusion since Budget 2012, provisions for a minimum increase of 50 percent on all pensions payable by the State, while indicating that the NIS be encouraged to do likewise.Further, the GPSU is of the view that the “Termination of Employment and Severance Pay (Amendment) Act No. 7 of 1999”should be repealed and provisions of the original “Termination of Employment and Severance Pay Act No. 19 of 1997” be fully reinstated.Action should also be taken to amend the Pensions Act, Chapter 27:02 to enable public service workers to earn gratuities and/or pensions, should they offer their resignation after a minimum of seven years service.”Yarde reiterated that the income tax threshold should be $100,000 per month; the income tax rate should be reduced from 33.3 percent to 20 percent on taxable income.“There should be a non-taxable allowance of $40,Nike Air Max Herren G��nstig,000 per month for dependants, especially to facilitate the delivery of proper care and upbringing of our youth. This should be manifested in a practical, realistic and tangible manner and not the lip service approach as is the case.”Yarde continued that, “There should be a non-taxable allowance of seventy five thousand dollars $75,000 per month for students who are dependants and are pursuing tertiary level,” such as the University of Guyana, Government Technical Institute etc.Value Added Tax (VAT), Yarde urged, should be reduced to eight percent. In this regard, it should be noted that all the political parties currently in Parliament made 2011 Elections campaign Manifesto promises to review the VAT. “This is the second Budget since the election and Government is still to satisfy its promise of a VAT review.“Allocations should be made for the payment of increment in the Public Service facilitating upward movement in pay bands and thus eliminating bunching of all employees at the minimum of the salary scales. This would go a far way to boosting workers’ morale and create a basis for improving efficiency and productivity.”