Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath has man­dat­ed the ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) and its whol­ly owned sub­sidiary, Am­plia, to put a hold on all hu­man re­source ac­tions un­til fur­ther no­tice with im­me­di­ate ef­fect.

This comes af­ter the board of TSTT re­fused to re­sign, Padarath said in an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day.

An un­dat­ed in­ter­nal memo de­tailed that the di­rec­tives ap­plied across all cat­e­gories of em­ploy­ment - per­ma­nent, tem­po­rary, part-time, con­tract, con­sul­tan­cy and con­tin­gent work­ers. The memo was is­sued by TSTT CEO Kent West­ern and was ob­tained by Guardian Me­dia.