According to plan
Kralendijk – March 2011 has ended and in the meantime all 256 former public officials of the Netherlands Antilles on the islands of the Caribbean Netherlands have received their back-payments. Of the 256 individuals, 13 are not employed at the RCN. The schedule of the payments was spread over the first three months of 2011, namely January, February and March.
In January the salary payment from October 1st through 9th took place, with deduction of possible advances received at the end of October 2010. The payment of the vacation allowance over the period of June 1st, 2010 up to and including October 9th, 2010 was also done.
In February the payment of overtime that should have been paid in September/ October 2010 took place. In February also, Ministerial Orders and National Decrees including a calculated amount of non-retroactive character as well as the vacation days that were not enjoyed in 2009 were paid.
In March the payment took place of the amounts based on Ministerial Orders and National Decrees that do have a retroactive character. This includes the base pay as well as all other components that are calculated based on the base pay. In this month still submissions for overtime that should have been paid in September/October 2010, and submissions for the payment of not enjoyed vacation days in 2009 were paid.
After 10-10-‘10 the ‘ Rijksdienst Caribisch Nederland’ was inundated with questions of concerned public officials who were taken over from the Country of the Netherlands Antilles about among others the salary payment over the period of October 1st up to and including 9th, 2010. The payment of the salary over this period was a responsibility of the Netherlands Antilles but in practice it was not executed.
The RCN was concerned about this situation and made efforts to ensure that the employees would get what they were entitled to. This concerned salary, vacation allowance and overtime.
The planning was that at the latest by March 2011 the last back-payments would be made.
All payments of this back-payment process are based on officially signed orders received by the RCN.