Philipsburg: --- While the concerns of the civil servants are mounting over the new scales that are to be implemented by the island government. Commissioner of Personnel Affairs Maria Buncamper Molanus said that the worst case scenario in the proposals is that workers would remain in the same scale. One of the main concerns on the new scales is the fact civil servants would only be able to move forward via training courses. The commissioner said that in many cases the turn out for these training courses are often time low since civil servants are overburdened with work. The courses she said always coincide with the work schedule of these workers. However, the island government always allocates monies for training courses and this she said will continue in the new setting. She said presently the finance department and the census office have been receiving trainings. Just recently the Economic Affairs department requested to have a training course which will take place. She maintains that trainings will remain a priority for the island government. Buncamper Molanus said civil servants can also take on the initiative to better
She said the process is very clear and information has been provided to the civil core that also has the opportunity to file a complaint with the committee. SMN News understands Amador Muller is the chairman of that committee.
The commissioner said many people may not be satisfied with that is given to them or what they expected. She said these persons must and should go through the appeal process to voice their concerns.
SMN News also understands while the island government has given a guarantee to the workers that the proposals will be bilingual that was not the case. One civil servant said the introduction letter is bilingual while a person's job description is only in the Dutch language. "In my opinion government wants to push this down the throats of the employees but that would not happen." Another source has since informed SMN News that all employees of the Census Office has requested a meeting with the appeals committee since it seems as if someone just copied and paste their job description.