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Non-critical employees get paid on time
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Posted on Jul 29 2011
For only at least the second time this year, non-critical government employees got paid on time yesterday.
Finance Secretary Larrisa Larson said they ran the payroll “just before the close of business [Friday] for non-critical employees.”
But early yesterday afternoon, there was still no telling whether these non-critical employees will have their 18th delayed payroll since June 2010 because of continued limited cash in government bank accounts and other obligations that need to be met first including hospital and utilities needs.
Besides limited cash collections, the government also had to deal with three pay periods in July.
Were it not for the end-of-the-month business gross revenue tax payment, the government wasn’t supposed to make timely payroll for non-critical employees.
These employees usually receive their paychecks on the Wednesday right after their supposed Friday payday.
Most of the employees subjected to delayed payrolls are also dealing with a 16-hour work cut biweekly and unpaid holidays as part of the Fitial administration’s cost cutting measures.
Only critical government employees such as doctors, nurses, firefighters and corrections officers, as well as federal-funded employees are being paid on time.
