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Emmar01 wrote:NIDCO sending home 100 ppl
EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:I heard on the radio a few hours ago that OJT is finding employment for people who sign up at 15 people per month which essentially makes it impossible to find jobs there now this was from the former minister of education.
Is either he is lying and just looking for political leverage or he is telling the truth and this place is really fcked.
HSA wrote:take what you get...little income is better than none
man bracing cashier work cuz it paying too lil then coming the week after asking me for a borrow
desifemlove wrote:HSA wrote:take what you get...little income is better than none
man bracing cashier work cuz it paying too lil then coming the week after asking me for a borrow
don't you work CEPEP? i've never had to.
HSA wrote:desifemlove wrote:HSA wrote:take what you get...little income is better than none
man bracing cashier work cuz it paying too lil then coming the week after asking me for a borrow
don't you work CEPEP? i've never had to.
Yes i worked cepep while going to school...no shame in that...
What is a shame is a man with a soft towtee
HSA wrote:desifemlove wrote:HSA wrote:take what you get...little income is better than none
man bracing cashier work cuz it paying too lil then coming the week after asking me for a borrow
don't you work CEPEP? i've never had to.
Yes i worked cepep while going to school...no shame in that...
What is a shame is a man with a soft towtee
sMASH wrote:the work to pay ratio of cepep is hard to compete with...
sMASH wrote:sMASH wrote:#1 kstt-unemployed
#2 sMASH- plant operator
#3
desifemlove wrote:sMASH wrote:sMASH wrote:#1 kstt-unemployed
#2 sMASH- plant operator
#3
Haha.
desifemlove wrote:So? You're a loser with no wuk. I only saying since you cuss me I getting even.
gaurdian wrote:Cuffie: GHRS no longer needed
35 employees to be axed
Minister of Public Administration and Communications, Maxie Cuffie, left, greets an employee of the Government Human Resource Service Company Ltd during his visit to the company’s offices in Chaguanas yesterday.
Shaliza Hassanali
Published:
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Minister of Public Administration and Communications, Maxie Cuffie, left, greets an employee of the Government Human Resource Service Company Ltd during his visit to the company’s offices in Chaguanas yesterday.
Approximately 35 employees of the Government Human Resource Services Company Ltd (GHRS) are expected to be sent home.
Confirmation came from Minister of Public Administration and Communications Maxie Cuffie in response to a text message yesterday.
Cuffie could not say when the workers will be axed as “new directors from the Ministry of Finance will be confirmed next week and they will determine the schedule for the winding up” of GHRS.
Yesterday, Cuffie met with the affected staff members, hours after Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced that the state company will be shut down. Rowley also revealed that Caroni Green Ltd, another company managed by the State will also face closure.
Cuffie admitted that Government’s decision to wrap up GHRS’ operations which falls under his purview was painful and tough.
In a release issued yesterday, Cuffie apologised to GHRS’ staff for not communicating with them before the PM made the announcement.
He said the country could no longer pay $8 million annually to GHRS when they no longer needed to attract people from abroad and did not have the funds to pay them.
When GHRS was established in 2006, Cuffie said the economy grew by 7.7 per cent and Government felt it needed to attract the best minds to T&T.
“We had the money to employ them and to bring them here. By 2010 the international recession had kicked in, our economic growth had declined and the Government was challenged for funds. So in fact from 2010 a decision was made to look at the possibility of closing GHRS. A Cabinet note was drafted, but it was never submitted and time went on,” Cuffie said.
With the downturn in the economy, Cuffie said a committee which was set up to examine the operations of special purpose companies and state enterprises, identified GHRS as one of the companies the Government did not need.
“The Public Accounts Enterprise Committee, which is chaired by an Opposition member, also looked at GHRS and found that it had strayed from its mandate and there needs to be a new vision if the company is to survive.”
Cuffie said it was recommended that the services offered by GHRS be transferred to the Public Service.
He promised that Government will honour the employees’ contracts and its obligations, while urging the employees to take advantage of the National Employment Service offered by the Ministry of Labour.
Assuring that a system will be put in place to help the employees through this difficult period, Cuffie said GHRS employed some of the brightest minds and was confident that they would have no difficulty landing new jobs.
The fear comes amid a second quarter 2016 report from the Central Statistical Office (CSO) that the labour force had decreased by 16,200 people since 2015, when the Central Bank announced the country was in a recession.
This figure cannot be attributed solely to retrenchment or job loss, however data shows ArcelorMittal closed its doors in March 2016, resulting in about 700 workers being sent home; Centrica terminated 200 workers last year; Repsol sent home 11 workers in January; and OAS Construtora laying off over 900 workers in April 2016, would have contributed to those figures.
Other companies across varying sectors of the country sent home workers as the contraction in T&T’s economy tore into the bottom line of many companies.
With less than three months gone in 2017, the estimate of workers, mostly in the private sector, who faced job cuts is over 300.
At the end of January, in the banking sector, RBC had sent home 20 employees from its business development unit. Digicel also signalled its intention to cut staff from its global workforce, and was expected to begin discussions with local staff.
At TDC, following the announcement by Tourism Minister Shamfa Cudjoe that the state agency would be dissolved, the Communications Workers Union (CWU) estimated that approximately 200 jobs were on the breadline.
In February, Industrial Plant Service Ltd (IPSL), the company that operates the five methanol plants at the Point Lisas Industrial Estate for Methanol Holdings (Trinidad) Ltd, wrote to Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus indicating its intention to mothball two of the methanol plants and send home over 100 employees who were deemed “aggregate surplus”.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced that the Government Human Resources Services (GHRS) and Caroni Green Limited would be closed down in the coming months.
He said there were other state enterprises which would also face closure. He said some of the agencies were guzzling state funds.
On Friday, Minister of Public Administration Maxie Cuffie, in a sympathetic release, announced that GHRS had been closed, a decision that would see 35 employees displaced.
Rowley said a few dozen workers would be affected by the closure of Caroni Green, but former agriculture Devant Maharaj said the actual figure will be 100 employees—20 administrative staff and 80 daily-paid labourers.
Emmar01 wrote:Bloomberg reports that Payless will file for bankruptcy in the US in a couple of months. Scarfy cyah blame Kams fo' dat one.
Dizzy28 wrote:Did they indicate they would be closing down operations?
Bankruptcy is not the same as insolvency. A company can declare bankruptcy and still operate.
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