Government has hired Indian policy advisor and labour economics researcher Dr Anil Yadav to conduct an assessment of Guyana’s short and long-term cross-sectoral labour capacity needs and design a strategy to guide government-planned immigration and labour policies, President Irfaan Ali says.
The announcement follows complaints made by local contractors, who told Ali of their difficulties finding workers, including daily and weekly labourers, with the skillsets needed to undertake infrastructural projects currently being executed. When Ali addressed the virtual Global Business Leadership Forum earlier this month, he highlighted the nature of the complaints from contractors about labour shortage-and government’s planned recruitment of an expert to conduct a labour analysis.