Flexible Retirement Age

Oct 14, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Mr. Claudius Prince must be congratulated for his excellent letter in the media on Monday 12/10/2015, titled “Developed USA uses elderly experienced workers; backward Guyana discards them”, which makes the case for flexible retirement. This letter came on the heels of similar recommendations offered to the COI into Guyana’s Public Service by Mr. Hydar Ally who recently retired as a Permanent Secretary in the Public Service.
Both gentlemen echo similar views and recommendations which I have personally and professionally been expressing at various fora for many years, not only in Guyana but elsewhere during my work as a consultant in Human Resource Management.
Particularly in countries like Guyana, with limited competencies in practically all spheres of employment, it is short-sighted and self-defeating to allow the calendar and birth certificate to make managerial decisions about who and when employees, especially highly competent and productive ones, must stop working because an inflexible pension scheme provides for retirement at a certain age.
Recruitment and Retention of employees are functions of supply and demand for certain competencies; once the demand is establish, why should the establishment be denied the supply already present and proven?
Bureaucratic justifications about rules, regulations, provisions of pension schemes or obscure references to ‘stifling of promotional opportunities’ are all unimaginative humbugs in what should be a more dynamic regime anchored on realistic, pragmatic and obviously more progressive Human Resource Management policies and programs which, sadly, are conspicuously absent in our dear land of Guyana from the new political hierarchy to the old established public service, the sugar industry and I dare say most of Guyana.
Nowrang Persaud

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