An es­ti­mat­ed 10,500 peo­ple who were fired from Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) will be re­ceiv­ing mon­ey soon.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has con­firmed that over 300 con­trac­tors ter­mi­nat­ed from the pro­gramme last Fri­day, who were col­lec­tive­ly re­spon­si­ble for the 10,000-plus work­ers, will re­ceive one month’s pay­ment “in lieu of no­tice,” en­abling them to com­pen­sate their work­ers for the month of Ju­ly.

“They are not just go­ing home with­out any­thing; CEPEP con­trac­tors will be paid and are ex­pect­ed to pay their em­ploy­ees,” Padarath told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day.