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Cuba to cut 500,000 gov't workers; reform salaries
2010-09-13 12:30:56 | (0 Comments)
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says it will fire at least half a million state workers by mid-2011 and will free up private enterprise to help them find new work — radically remaking employment on the communist island.
The layoffs will start immediately and run through the first half of next year, according to an announcement Monday by the nearly 3 million-strong Cuban Workers Confederation — the only labor union the government tolerates.
To soften the blow, it said the government would authorize simultaneous increases in [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]job [COLOR=blue !important]opportunities[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] in the non-state sector, allowing more Cubans to become [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]self-employed[/COLOR][/COLOR], to form cooperatives run by employees rather than government bureaucrats and to increase private control of state land and infrastructure through long-term leases.
2010-09-13 12:30:56 | (0 Comments)
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says it will fire at least half a million state workers by mid-2011 and will free up private enterprise to help them find new work — radically remaking employment on the communist island.
The layoffs will start immediately and run through the first half of next year, according to an announcement Monday by the nearly 3 million-strong Cuban Workers Confederation — the only labor union the government tolerates.
To soften the blow, it said the government would authorize simultaneous increases in [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]job [COLOR=blue !important]opportunities[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] in the non-state sector, allowing more Cubans to become [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]self-employed[/COLOR][/COLOR], to form cooperatives run by employees rather than government bureaucrats and to increase private control of state land and infrastructure through long-term leases.
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