Thursday at a press conference, the Mayor of Petion-ville Dominic St Roc and the Deputy Mayor, Alexandrah Roumain, announced the layoff (on availability) (without pay) of 1,080 municipal employees, due to payroll apparently too high, a wage debt of over 40 million, some fraud, pending verification of the actual existence of all employees and the justification for each of them to the municipal government level.

With this radical decision, Petion-ville became the third municipality after Port-au-Prince and Delmas https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17950-haiti-politic-the-mayor-of-delmas-continues-to-make-waves.html to take such action to stop the fiscal bleeding, eliminate fraud refine the list of employees and gradually proceed to the reinstatement shortly of staff, starting with those of road and taxation.

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