Private sector stabs govt in the back

Ahead of today’s lockdown, leaked internal memos from several companies showed that workers were being put on unpaid leave, or having their contracts terminated under the “no work, no pay” policy. While the tourism sector has been hardest hit by the coronavirus, jobs cuts have occurred at even seemingly insulated sectors such as government-sponsored educational institutions.

A wave of suspicious retrenchments has been created, angering the State which is bearing the brunt of measures to support jobs and the economy.