Minister of tourism Edmund Bartlett addressing a post-Cabinet
media briefing at Jamaica House on Wednesday. (Photo: JIS)
MINISTER of tourism Edmund Bartlett has set his sights on better pay for workers in the booming hospitality sector, but he has made it clear that there will be no move by the Government to mandate this.
“We don’t direct the market and we don’t determine what the market actually does. But the labour market arrangement within tourism is now being reviewed and we are looking at, not legislatively, but what we are looking at are operational activities to guide how we develop human capital within the tourism sector and the competencies that are going to be required,” said Bartlett at a post-Cabinet media briefing at Jamaica House on Wednesday.
“Where tourism is going, then, is to create the transition from the low wage characterisation that we know of, and that transition will happen by the labour market arrangements that we are trying to put in…
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