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Govt restructures WASA's management
Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Govt restructures WASA's management
Gonzales then quoted the first paragraph of the report's executive summary which stated: "The Water and Sewerage Authority has become an unwavely, unproductive, unresponsive organisation that has deteriorated and is no longer efficiently serving the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago. In numerous instances and over many decades, efficiency was sacrificed for inter alia, political patronage, and management accountability exchanged for industrial stability, resulting in an organisation in which there's little correlation between the contents of collective agreement and the realities of providing a reliable service to the national population, at an affordable and acceptable cost to the taxpayers of Trinidad and Tobago."
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Gonzales said the government has not made a decision to cut staff. He said the new management will be responsible for conducting a comprehensive audit of the staff composition of the authority.
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WASA currently operates with an organization structure that differs vastly from that which was approved by Cabinet in 1999 for 1,723 employees. Its employee listing currently stands at 4,828 employees which consists of 3,043 monthly paid and 1,785 daily paid workers. This figure excludes the 47 members of the executive management team; the Adopt a River Programme (14); the Beetham Wastewater Project (23); the Tobago Wastewater Project (4); the Tobago Expansion Services Project (8); and Customer Contact Centre Representatives (31).
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