WILLEMSTAD - Civil servants will be paid 1/12th of the holiday pay next Friday. This is according to an internal government announcement. The payment will be made together with the salary, but this will be shown in a separate section on the salary slip as 'holiday pay'.
The ABVO union announces that the payment of the holiday allowance is lagging behind, but the government assures that the payment will take place before 1 July. ABVO director George Hernandez announced today that the union would have preferred the holiday pay payment separately, because it then falls under the special rate. The result now is that the civil servants receive less money.