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Ministry in staffing crisis after budget cut
The Ministry of Livestock Development faces a severe staffing crisis after Treasury cut its budget by Sh5.08 billion.
The figures, tabled before a House committee on Monday, show a staff deficit of 8,800 in the ministry’s technical departments.
Assistant minister Aden Duale told the parliamentary committee on Agriculture that the ministry had not recruited technical staff since 1988.
Up to 70 per cent of the ministry’s staff are said to be between 45 and 54 years, with the mandatory retirement age previously at 55 years having been pushed to 60 years.
Mr Duale said the many “old people” in the ministry meant that there was an “acute succession challenge” that had to be addressed through massive recruitment.
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Inadequate Staffing Takes its Toll in Health Care Industry
Recently, the American Nurses Association (ANA) released the results of an ongoing survey of nurses across the U.S., and the findings are grim. The survey received more than 15,000 responses from nursing professionals, and an alarming number of respondents reported insufficient staffing and a decline of care. Specifically, 50% of nurses say they would “not feel confident” having a loved one receive treatment in the facility they work in, and a shocking 72% believe that the staffing in their unit is insufficient. The staffing insufficiency has taken the largest toll on nurses - most are rarely afforded a full meal break and many have been forced to take on additional duties. Over half are considering leaving their current position, and nearly a quarter are considering leaving nursing all together.
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Staffing services retool, invest for better times
By Larisa Brass Posted July 20, 2009 at midnight
To gauge the recession’s impact, Vivian Bray merely looks to her front doorstep.
There, the branch manager of Labor Finders of Knoxville’s says, a queue of job-seekers typically forms long before 6 a.m., when she unlocks the doors of the North Broadway office.
“Some of these people are lining up here at 11 o’clock at night … just in hopes of an opportunity to be able to go in the next day,” says Bray.
“Everybody right now is in survival mode.”
Staffing services, to a large extent, serve as a barometer of the job market and the overall economy and local firms are still reeling from the wave of closures, downsizing and layoffs that began rolling through the region, and the nation, last fall.
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