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“We are not satisfied with the way things are going,Jerseys NFL Wholesale,” says Mortimer Livan of the Guyana Public ServiceMortimer Livan, GPSU’s First Vice PresidentUnion (GPSU)’s recent interactions with Government.Livan, who is First Vice President of the GPSU, has described Government’s intervention in some protracted issues affecting the Union as rather slothful.“We think there are quite a few things that could have been done quite easily without even going to Parliament, and these things are still outstanding, so we think the pace is very slow,” said Livan.His remarks were forthcoming at a press conference on Monday during which he was asked about the relationship between the Union and the coalesced A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Government, which was elected to office in May.According to Livan, the Union had submitted a number of issues of concern to the current administration. In fact he informed that at a meeting a few weeks ago, the Union was asked to submit some additional information regarding its concerns. But according to the GPSU Executive “we are still waiting on the outcome.”Livan was asked to specify some of the issues that Government has been slow in addressing and among those highlighted is an ongoing sweeper/cleaner matter, the absence of a Public Service Appellate Tribunal, and the stopping of the Agency Fee.Expounding on the sweeper/cleaner issue, Livan explained that these are people who work with the Ministry of Education tasked with performing cleaning duties. He noted that while they are expected to perform these duties for a period of six hours per working day,Wholesale NFL Jerseys 2018, this has increased to eight hours.The situation might not have been a problematic one if the workers were in fact paid for the period actually worked.“They get paid for six hours. They don’t get paid on holidays, no leave and things like that,Wholesale China Jerseys, and that is one of the things we think should change,” said Livan, as he disclosed that the GPSU is contending that because of the hours worked,Adidas Hockey Jerseys Cheap, the sweeper/cleaner workers should be made full-time employees.This proposal by the Union was in fact gaining the attention of the past administration,Cheap Jerseys, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C). According to Livan, the PPP/C, in 2014,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, had promised to address the issue and make the workers full-time workers, but that never materialised.On the issue of the Public Service Appellate Tribunal, Livan noted that it is a constitutional body that should have been in place a long time ago. The body had reportedly become defunct since in the mid 1990s. But according to Livan, in anticipation of the restoration of the Tribunal, the GPSU has already named its nominees. Government also has to name another nominee and a Chairperson must also be named before the Tribunal could be brought into being.“The Union has nominated its person long ago and unto now we can’t get any movement with that,” said Livan.The Tribunal is tasked with accepting appeals from public servants who believe that they have been victimised or wrongly dismissed.On the issue of the Agency Fee, Livan said that it was arbitrarily stopped by the former Government.“Even though there was an agreement that says that people should pay Agency Fee it was stopped…we were in the process of conciliation with the Ministry of Labour,” related Livan as he pointed out that “this again could be easily reinstated.”“We have been talking to Government…they have said yes; that things are going to happen, but we are still waiting,” Livan added.