Cuba a process of change begins with the dismissal of 500,000 officials
Cuba has begun the process of laying off thousands of state workers in several of its ministries. This is one of the core measures of President Raul Castro to boost the domestic economy.
The Government has announced plans to lay off 500,000 workers from their inflated state templates until next March. The secretary general of the Confederation of Workers of Cuba, Salvador Valdes, explained that the workers' union would oversee the layoffs will begin in the Ministry of Sugar, Agriculture, Construction, Health and Tourism to ensure that they are carried out without "rape, paternalism, favoritism and other negative trends."
The job cuts are part of the Castro is currently reviewing plans to end economic problems chronic island. Cuba, hard hit by three hurricanes in 2008 and the global financial crisis, foreign exchange is scarce and has had to cut imports, freezing bank accounts of foreign companies and local missing payments to creditors in the past two years.
why Castro wants to reduce the role of government while maintaining control of an economy that will have a greater private sector and less government spending. In most cases, the Cubans that are redundant will be offered other employment options, which can accept or reject. Some 200,000 employees would be absorbed by cooperatives to be created in businesses operated by the State.
The Cuban state guarantees social and health benefits and free education, but earn average salaries equivalent to about $ 20 a month.
Licensing self-employment
The Government has also begun to issue 250,000 new licenses for self-employment. For the first time will allow workers hired workers.
A second round of labor adjustment will take place later, with at least another 500,000 jobs eliminated from the state payroll in the coming years. The union must "convince (the workers) the need for the implementation of these measures for the country's economy, with the assurance that nobody will ultimately helpless," said Valdes.
A union committee in each of the ministries and workplaces will determine which workers are the most "suitable" and keep their jobs based on their productivity. "We know that without productivity, there will not be ever wage growth, so it is a necessary step that must be understood, "said Mayda Vega, head of office of a deputy agriculture minister.
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