PHILIPSBURG:--- Just before the parliament’s recess, the government presented a change to the law that slashed benefits of civil servants with 12.5 %. This “slashing”, the government argued at the time was a necessary condition to secure liquidity assistance from the Netherlands. One would recall that the government felt “vindicated”, by the upholding of these cost-cutting laws by the Constitutional Court.
“I have argued from day one that reducing the income of one of the few sectors that could continue to fully pay its workers during the pandemic, was a flawed economic argument. The counter argument, used by the ...
