And while public officers salaries are secure - we can't say the same for employees of municipals governments. Those bodies are especially hard hit by the economic slowdown - and government has been unable to give them a bailout - including UDP councils in San Ignacio and Punta Gorda. San Ignacio has had to send workers home because the government can't help:
Rt. Hon. Prime Minister
"Government's revenue collections are collapsing, have collapsed. We have to borrow to keep the public service hold. But we do that and at the same time have to then reject the calls for help from the private sector, including in particular in this case for the airlines, and that is why you will forgive me for having become so exercised at the fact that the public service union does not want to put this thing in perspective. It can't be that everyone else must suffer to a huge terrific degree but that a slight concession on your part Mr. PSU is not to be entertained."
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