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A system that will ensure that part-time Government workers in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) are paid for their work is to be implemented in the region.
This follows allegations that some workers did not work the stipulated ten days for the month.
Region Six Chairman David Armogan on Tuesday said that systems will be put in place to eliminate a reoccurrence.
The programme commenced in July and saw some 4000 persons employed in Region Six under the Government’s 10-day, $40,000 per month part-time employment programme.
Referring to initial pay sheets, Region Six Chairman David Armogan pointed that there were some hiccups.
Scores of persons had turned up at the Regional Democratic Council claiming that they were not paid after having worked during the month of July.
Those persons were told that their names were not submitted on the initial pay sheets.
The regional administration subsequently discovered that some department heads were late in submitting the required information.
Those persons were subsequently paid.
However, Armogan pointed out that inaccurate information was submitted in some instances. This, he explained, caused a further delay in payments.
According to the Regional Chairman, some persons would have worked eight days and nine days but the submissions that were made were for ten days.
He pointed out that those records were subsequently adjusted and a recording system has now been put in place whereby each one of these agencies that have persons working are now required to have a register and record the part-time workers’ presence at work.
“So what we will be doing in order to monitor the situation in a better way, we will be arranging to have monitors in different geographic areas, persons who are employed in the same 10-days scheme; we will engage some of them to be able to do monitoring work so that we have accurate information,” Armogan added.
He noted that some of the agencies to which persons are being sent have not been keeping accurate records.
“This can lead to problems of people under-receiving money or over-receiving money,” Armogan said. (G4)
