That's what Director of Tourism Tracy Taegar told us today about the Albert sanitation workers who we featured on the news last night. As we reported, 19 workers, all Albert voters, were fired effective December 31st.
It seemed like basic political arithmetic to us, new minister, new division, new rules, and old political jobs given by the old minister in the old division, out the door. Real politics to us, but real wrong to director Taegar. She says that the decision to terminate the workers was taken by the Tourism Board in August as part of across-the-board cost cutting measures. But why weren't the workers told they were being fired until January 4th, to be effective immediately? Well Taegar says they didn't want to fire them in August because the school year was starting. While that's one story, a board member who wished to remain nameless told us that no such decision was made because of the political cost in the former Minister Espat's division.
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