Annisette pushes back against PM’s ‘lazy’ public servants comment

Trade union leader Michael An­nisette is cau­tion­ing against pub­licly crit­i­cis­ing pub­lic sec­tor em­ploy­ees, fol­low­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s warn­ing that un­der­per­form­ing work­ers could be fired and re­placed.

His com­ments fol­lows state­ments made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, who dur­ing her con­tri­bu­tion to the bud­get de­bate said her Gov­ern­ment would no longer tol­er­ate poor work eth­ic and low pro­duc­tiv­i­ty among work­ers paid by tax­pay­ers.

The Prime Min­is­ter warned that pub­lic sec­tor em­ploy­ees who fail to per­form their du­ties would be dis­missed and re­placed by peo­ple will­ing to work.