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11-25-2010, 02:40 PM
The IX National Census of Population and Housing has been postponed until next week. Last night, National Statistical Office (ONE) director Pablo Tactuk announced the postponement until 1 December. A delay in the payment of a RD$200 per diem allowance for the staff training period led the workers to refuse to go to work until it was paid. Late yesterday the President's office issued Decree 649-10 postponing the census to the 1st to the 7th of December, 2010, citing as the cause "the need for a longer period to coordinate all the processes that ONE has launched, in order to assure the quality of the materials distribution, field work and processing stages". During a press conference held at the ONE office, Tactuk gave reasons such as "the reprocessing work that requires deferring the census by a week, so that the supervisors can receive the corresponding materials in time".
The ONE director told Diario Libre that he guaranteed the payment of the per diems for the courses taken by the census workers and the supervisors. Tactuk said that today or tomorrow Friday at the latest they would pay the RD$1,200 and RD$1,800 for the six days of training that these people attended. Tactuk made it clear, moreover, that there would not be any deductions from the pay of the young people who work on the Census, who will be paid RD$900 per day for the census takers and RD$1,300 per day for the supervisors. He also stated that ONE would not pay the government employees who work on the census, but the institutions for which they work.
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The ONE director told Diario Libre that he guaranteed the payment of the per diems for the courses taken by the census workers and the supervisors. Tactuk said that today or tomorrow Friday at the latest they would pay the RD$1,200 and RD$1,800 for the six days of training that these people attended. Tactuk made it clear, moreover, that there would not be any deductions from the pay of the young people who work on the Census, who will be paid RD$900 per day for the census takers and RD$1,300 per day for the supervisors. He also stated that ONE would not pay the government employees who work on the census, but the institutions for which they work.
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