Acting Justice Minister Marinka Gumbs says November 30 is the target date to complete Phase Two salary calculations and prepare the files for further review.
PHILIPSBURG:--- Three of the 15 outstanding national decrees for active justice workers were in the final stages of processing as of November 9, Acting Minister of Justice Marinka Gumbs told Parliament. The other 12 cases were still undergoing administrative processing. All 15 employees were awaiting their decrees and corresponding retroactive pay at the time of her update.
Responding to MP Egbert Jurendy Doran during the 2027 budget debate, Gumbs said three decrees had reached the finalization stage. She gave no date for signing or issuing them.
November 30 target covers Phase Two paperwork
Separately, Gumbs reaffirmed November 30, 2026, as the Justice Ministry’s target for completing its administrative work on Phase Two. By that date, the ministry aims to verify all salary-scale calculations and prepare the formal advice for processing.
Phase Two covers retroactive salary adjustments from October 10, 2010, through December 31, 2022, where applicable. Departments are checking the calculations with support from the Staff Bureau. Gumbs said the ministry had encountered challenges during validation but considered them manageable and expected to stick to the timetable it gave Parliament.
Once the Justice Ministry completes that work, the files still require formal review by the Ministry of Finance, execution of the relevant national decrees and Treasury processing. Gumbs gave no date for the money to reach employees.
Gumbs identifies 5.8 million guilders for placements and retroactive pay
Gumbs said 5.8 million guilders had been allocated under personnel expenditure for the placement process and retroactive payments to justice workers. She gave no breakdown of how much would go toward individual payments or when those payments would begin.
The ministry also intends to submit an updated staffing plan to Parliament’s Justice Committee in the first quarter of 2027. Gumbs said the plan is being finalized by aligning the Phase Two placement calculations with approved positions and the allocations in the 2027 budget.