Panton: Work allow imbalance will likely be addressed - CayPress

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Panton: Work allow imbalance will likely be addressed


Premier Wayne Panton at Friday’s press briefing

(CNS): Premier Wayne Panton appeared to be singing from a different song sheet than his deputy and labour minister on Friday when he said that the PACT Government might have got the balance between encouraging employers in tourism to recruit Caymanians and allowing those employers to access work permits wrong.

He said it was in the interest of government and the economy to ensure that private sector bosses get the work permits they need to properly run their businesses, but government may have been too keen to see local workers back on the job.

In the face of complaints from some leading tourism employers that they are not getting the permits they need to meet the growing tourism demand as the borders reopen, the premier said that in an effort to get the 1,700 or more unemployed local people back to work, the government might have got things wrong.

“We have to recognise, as a government, as a country, that the…



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