Region Six Chairman, David Armogan last week disclosed that arrangements are being put in place to have monitors for part-time workers after it was discovered last month that agencies had submitted the full ten days’ payment for some persons who only worked eight and nine days.
According to Armogan, the monitors will also come from the ten-day part-time workers’ scheme. At a press conference in his office last Friday, he stated, “We find that some of the agencies where we are sending people they are not keeping accurate records and this can lead to problems of people either under-receiving money or receiving (more) money and that’s a problem we really can’t afford at this time.”
As such, in order to ensure that the system is monitored properly, arrangements are being made to have “monitors in different geographical areas.”
4,000 persons have been employed under a government programme as part-time workers in Region Six. For ten days of work, each worker is receiving $40,000 per month – costing the region a total of $160m monthly.
Armogan said that during payments for the first month some issues were discovered, “where not accurate information was submitted so we had to go back and get the accurate information so that people could get their correct pay.”
He said that it was discovered that some part-time workers had worked eight or nine days but some agencies had submitted the full ten days on their behalf for payments. “So we had to go and get it back and get some of those records adjusted” to ensure persons were paid accurately.
According to him, a records-keeping system has now been developed as well at each of the agencies where part-time workers are attached to ensure that no overpayment is done. “Whereby at each one of these agencies they have to get a register and be able to mark the people whenever they come to work, whether they are present or absent for that particular day”, he said.
