Bermuda Premier offers to take pay cut

The 8 percent normally paid by workers towards their pensions would not be deducted from pay cheques while government would not have to pay its matching share of pension contributions, either.

The 8 percent pay cut would last for a year.

Furbert said: “We are going to go back to them and give them a counter-proposal which I’m not at liberty to discuss at the moment.”

Furbert said government’s proposed deal would apply to all government workers, including those represented by the white-collar Bermuda Public Services Union.

Furbert said his members “seemed pretty much upbeat, they liked the counter-proposal we’re going to take back to the government.”

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