State employees and the Public Service Commission

Introduction

The issue of contracted employees attached to the Office of the President as well as the level of salaries offered has been the subject of a recent intense debate in the National Assembly. The outcome of the debate was that the Assembly did not approve of amounts totalling $150 million sought by way of supplementary estimates for 2012 to meet the wages and salaries of some of these employees.

Today, we look the Public Service Commission (PSC), an institution of the State that the public looks