The Mia Mottley administration is being accused of unfairly targeting women in its retrenchment programmes.
National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) general secretary Roslyn Smith, speaking after a meeting at the union’s Dalkeith, St Michael headquarters on Monday night with members regarding the upcoming public sector retrenchment, said a major part of those earmarked to lose their jobs were stenotypists and clerk typists, posts dominated by women.
“These women are single parents and breadwinners for their families. This is an attack on women in the workforce; this is a gender issue,” she declared.
Smith, who took part in a recent Social Partnership meeting on the issue, said those posts were among the ones being abolished but further discussion was needed and not at the level of the Partnership. (CA)
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