Chamber pushes privatization, warns about job cuts

(CNS Business): Following news that the deputy governor is moving forward with the next phase in the rationalization of the public sector, the Chamber of Commerce is pressing hard for privatization as a way of reducing the size of government. However, the Chamber’s president has also expressed concerns that the private sector must make room for local workers who lose their jobs in the shake-up. Johan Moxam told CNS Business that the private sector, which has been pushing for downsizing in government for decades, must play its part in providing work for those civil servants whose departments are sold, reduced, merged or cut to prevent further socio-economic problems in the local workforce. Read more on CNS Business

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