To All Staff
All Departments of the Public Service
In response to the Ministers letter dated xxxx regarding the outstanding performance of those Government Departments with respect to Cost Recovery. We note that the Treasury was not included and quite frankly, that makes us look bad.
We are delighted to advise that in keeping in step with Government Policy on Cost Recovery, effective 1st July 2007 a small fee of $25 will be applied to all Government employees salary, in order to cover processing and handling cost at the end of each pay period.
Any additional allowances which may be claimed within each pay period will attract a $5 handling fee.
A $10 fee will be applied to all Employees who use periodic deductions for each such occasion.
Elected Members of the Parliament will incur an additional fee of $20 This is due to fact that you are politicians, for no other reason.
The Treasury in line with Government Policy has consulted extensively among Treasury Staff as to how best to apply these charges and will be subject to review.
We acknowledge this will not be popular among Government Employees, however it is regretfully unavoidable as we can not have other Departments of the Government performing better than the Treasury Department.
Regards
Chief of Staff
The Treasury