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Teachers, Public Officers Get Their Raise
posted (June 16, 2015)

Government today sent out a press release announcing that the 8% increase for teachers and public officers will come though as promised in July. It's retroactive to April and is going to cost the public purse 38 million dollars, every year, and is in addition to the 6% increase from last year – which cost about 29 million dollars.

In addition to this increase, public officers and teachers also qualify for their 2% annual increment.

And that's not the end of it, the Collective Bargaining Agreement signed in February of 2014 between the Government of Belize and the unions calls for a salary increase every year for three years commencing in 2014.

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