The sore issue of contract employees in the public sector, following the change of governments in 2015, continues to attract interest. Indeed, responding to comments in Focus 2016, Minister of State and spokesperson for the APNU+AFC Government, raised questions about the projected increases in the number of contract employees reflected in our 2016 Budget Focus.
Positively however, we welcomed Minister Harmon’s assurance that “there has been a clear direction by the President that it is our intention to return the Public service to a professional one and so contract hires will be reduced to a minimum”. That assurance was consistent with the