Repeated extensions in contractual employment for good-for-nothing people irreparably devastated organisations
ISLAMABAD: We live in an unjust and discriminatory society where the majority of people do not have human, educational, health, political, economic and social rights, including the right to employment. In the latter case, they face various forms of discrimination. Contractual employment is a classic example of deep-seated discrimination in our society. In many organisations, contractual jobs at all levels are created for a chosen few on the sole criterion of kinship, cronyism and flattery.
After careful review of various factors, including unemployment of well-qualified young people in Pakistan, I have concluded that the repeated extensions in contractual employment for the proverbial good-for-nothing people have irreparably devastated organisational governance and performance in different public-sector organisations. Retired people are often rehired after aggressively seeking contractual employment and get repeated extensions as if they are indispensable to the organisations. Indeed, I strongly believe that no one is indispensable in this ephemeral world.
Had our people in power applied their mind and appointed contractual employees on the basis of qualification and character, the messy situation that many of our public-sector enterprises are in could have been avoided.
Hashim Abro
Published in The Express Tribune, August 1st, 2015.
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