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Nov 18, 2008 News

Restructuring likely, retrenchments tentative – Mayor Green

 

With the already limited budget available, and not being able to provide all the necessary services, the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown may soon be looking at a programme of restructuring.

This is according to Mayor Hamilton Green, who said that this comes in the wake of attempts to broaden the Council’s revenue base for the past 14 years since he took office as Mayor.

Mayor Green said that during several meetings with the Minister responsible for Local Government, possible means of enhancing the Council’s revenue base were discussed, but to no avail.

“We are looking at restructuring, which may or may not mean retrenchment of workers,” Greene said.

He noted that, with the already crumbling financial situation at City Hall, the Guyana Labour Union should join forces to lobby for betterment for the workers.

“Instead of demanding money from us, which they know for a fact we don’t have, they should work with us towards the possible restructuring, and make a joint appeal to the Government for the revenue base to be broadened,” Green said.

“We are now trying to put together a budget where we are hard put to provide minimum services to citizens without massive retrenchment, which will also mean us accepting to provide certain services”, Greene noted. Currently the Mayor and City Council and the Guyana Labour Union are at different pages, as the Union is lobbying for passage assistance for workers, severance payments, a refund of the pension, the restructuring of the redundancy clause, as well as a 10 per cent increase in remuneration for workers.

Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir has since ordered compulsory arbitration.

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