“You cannot throw bacon for the boys and bones to the workers,
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Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, when many times it cannot pay its workers.“We are of the view that this is a cash-strapped entity on its knees, living out of a beggar’s bowl held out to the taxpayers for bailouts in two consecutive years,” Nagamootoo said.He added that the position the company finds itself in is a poor example of “frugality and austerity” on the part of the administration.The AFC Vice Chairman said that all right-thinking Guyanese should come out in condemnation of the continued “super salary syndrome.”He said that this is even worse when placed in the context that Government had refused to pay a 10 per cent across the board increase to workers.“The fat cat syndrome in which the People’s Progressive Party Civic caught itself in order to butter its friends should be condemned.”Nagamootoo stressed that the AFC is not against paying appropriate salaries to people with specialized skills but rather, is against “rewards for political operatives like Raj Singh at the head of GuySuCo.”Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh, while addressing a media briefing on Monday at his party’s Headquarters, Freedom House, had said that Singh, who currently serves as Acting Chairman of GuySuCo’s Board of Directors,
Wholesale Hockey Jerseys 2018, is “eminently qualified” to head the cash-strapped entity.The Finance Minister told media operatives that Singh would be paid no more than the equivalent of the most recent substantive Chief Executive Officer of the Company.That position was held by Errol Hanoman, who resigned from the post in 2010.His contract offered by the sugar company stated,
cheap nfl jerseys outlet, “Your annual remuneration while working in Guyana (including salary and pension allowance) will be paid by GuySuCo in Sterling.“Your initial salary (net of income tax and other statutory deductions payable in Guyana) will be at a rate of £74,904 per annum, payable on a monthly basis. Your pension allowance will be paid with salary at the rate of £9,
NFL Cheap Jerseys,942 per annum.”The Finance Minister was grilled on the ability of Singh to run the Corporation. He responded, “He is eminently qualified and has worked in sugar for a number of years at senior levels.”Dr Singh added that the Acting Chairman of the Board of Directors has worked in areas relevant to the management of large organizations, similar to that of GuySuCo.
