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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Public sector workers ...ans ( RJR )...</span>
There is growing support for a suggestion that polygraph testing be implemented within the political directorate before it is introduced in the wider public sector.Last Wednesday, National Security Minister Senator Dwight Nelson indicated that mandatory polygraph testing will be used to ensure the integrity of senior public sector officials.However, the Jamaica Civil Service Association and the National Workers Union have urged caution before the implementation.The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO) has joined the NWU in recommending that political leaders be the first to undergo testing.JALGO General Secretary, Helene Davis-White, says this will level the playing field.However, Mrs. Davis-White is cautioning about its limitations. "If you are going to have public sector workers in senior positions, who is more senior than the person who makes the policy?""Most of the workers will say to you that if it is going to be used and it is going to be used across the board, not only for the administrators but for the political directorate then that would seem to be fair, but we have to go beyond that. We have to determine whether or not this is a tool that can be depended on wholly and solely to determine whether someone is or is not speaking the truth," Mrs. Davis-White said.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Public sector workers ...ans ( RJR )...</span>
There is growing support for a suggestion that polygraph testing be implemented within the political directorate before it is introduced in the wider public sector.Last Wednesday, National Security Minister Senator Dwight Nelson indicated that mandatory polygraph testing will be used to ensure the integrity of senior public sector officials.However, the Jamaica Civil Service Association and the National Workers Union have urged caution before the implementation.The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO) has joined the NWU in recommending that political leaders be the first to undergo testing.JALGO General Secretary, Helene Davis-White, says this will level the playing field.However, Mrs. Davis-White is cautioning about its limitations. "If you are going to have public sector workers in senior positions, who is more senior than the person who makes the policy?""Most of the workers will say to you that if it is going to be used and it is going to be used across the board, not only for the administrators but for the political directorate then that would seem to be fair, but we have to go beyond that. We have to determine whether or not this is a tool that can be depended on wholly and solely to determine whether someone is or is not speaking the truth," Mrs. Davis-White said.