Minister of Housing David Lee has told the Lower House of Parliament that no HDC staff were fired.
In fact, he said that some persons did not have their contracts renewed and that they were all given their contracted gratuity.
“HDC has a workforce of 765 employees. Forty eight employees whose contracts ended were not given new contracts. I just want to say that those individuals would have gotten a 20% gratuity.”
With regard to monthly maintenance contractors, Minister Lee noted that this matter needs to be handled differently. He said the government is looking into reducing the more than $10 million contract cost for this service.
“The HDC Board has an issue with how the maintenance contracts were structured. There were no proper procurement over the last few years, and there were a lot of issues and irregularities that need to be investigated and audited.”