Government has identified 1 500 public sector workers for imminent retrenchment, but more jobs could be cut, depending on the outcome of restructuring efforts at some key state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
However, Government’s senior technical adviser Dr Kevin Greenidge on Tuesday stressed initiatives, including the public sector digitisation programme, outsourcing of services and private sector projects, were likely to provide job opportunities for the affected individuals.
He also said the fact the majority of stenographer/typists and clerk/typists expected to lose their jobs were female, did not mean the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) programme was targeting a specific gender.
On Monday night at a National Union of Public Workers meeting, general secretary Roslyn Smith had charged that a major part of those earmarked to be cut were stenographer/typists and clerk/typists, posts dominated by women. She added it was an attack on women in the workforce. (SC)
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