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FELISHA Thomas, President of the Public Services Association (PSA), keenly welcomed news that contractual terms and conditions of employment ("contract employment") will be removed from the Public Service, talking to Newsday on August 28. She gave her response to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar's announcement the day before at a Penal event that the Public Service had thousands of permanent jobs to be filled, even as she sought to end contract employment which she said was both costly to the state and harsh on the employee.

Persad-Bissessar had said, "You have no security of tenure, you cannot get a loan, you cannot get a mortgage, you cannot leverage your job. You could be sent home at any time."

Thomas welcomed the elimination of contract work.