Chief Clerk at the Ministry of Works, Telcine Thompson says she has not been promoted since 1992 as other employees of the ministry recently received promotions.
Thompson told reporters, “I’m near to retirement and I haven’t gotten anything.” She added, “I run I section. I have the qualifications in. I got good ACRs reports and today I saw all of my colleagues got something. I haven’t been promoted in years, next two years I’ll be retired. I feel bad about it today.”
Minister of Labour and the Public Service, the Hon. Pia Glover-Rolle commented on the issue on the sidelines of the promotion ceremony. She said, “we work from a place of recommendation which means a department or ministry has to recommend its employees for promotion. Because, Public Service, we don’t know who they are. You have to speak for who your employees are. Once we get the files then they’re processed. We have had persons, because I have a public service hotline, that have reached out and said I think I was overlooked. And in that instance we would send a request to the ministry or the department with the name and say this is someone who believes that they’ve been overlooked. And in some instances they were overlooked and their files are sent. So that where we’re filling in the gaps. We’re allowing public servants to reach out and say me, I think I should be there. And if the files speak to that fact that they have been overlooked we’re resolving those issues.”
Minister Glover-Rolle announced a service wide promotion exercise in April of this year while serving as Minister of State for the Public Service.
