Over the next five years, government will be working to integrate contract workers into the traditional public service, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon, who yesterday said the APNU+AFC administration inherited the system under which the workers were hired, forcing it to go with the flow for now.
“…What we have said is that we will gradually merge all of these persons who are on contract into the traditional public service. We have already entered into conversations with the Public Service Commission… additionally all those persons under age 45, we will give them an opportunity to get into the traditional public service,” Harmon said in response to questions raised by opposition parliamentarians during the consideration of the 2016 budgetary estimates for the Ministry of the Presidency.
Harmon faced hours of intense questioning that was largely focused on contract workers but the