Bridgetown.
Acting deputy general secretary of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) Roslyn Smith says temporary workers at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital are bieng overlooked for vacant posts.
"It is a crying shame that we still have a situation that when there are vacancies, people are brought in and place in those postions at the expense of temporary staff. It should be the other way around , where those people should be placed in the vacant postions while those coming in for the first time should be given the temporary slots", Smith told Trakker News.
Smith think there is a need for fair play and transparency and the issue smacked of poltical interference.
"The position is that people who have been temporary, would have chalked up nine or ten years at the hospital in some instances, the policy was that when post became vacant by retirement or divine intervention, those people would be placed in those postions", Smith said.
"Now we dont have that safe haven in term of jobs because of the poltical interference", she added.
