KINGSTON, Jamaica — The recently established Public Sector Transformation Oversight Committee (PSTOC) is expected to meet tomorrow, the first time since Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced it.

At this inaugural sitting, the committee is expected to plan an effective and efficient monitoring and reporting mechanism for tracking the transformation exercise.

A news release from the oversight committee said under the Government’s three-year Precautionary Stand-By Arrangement with the International Monetary Fund, there are specific structural benchmarks for public sector transformation and social safety net that form part of the new measures.

The committee said these include: the setting up of the public-sector employee database to incorporate the various types of allowances paid across ministries, departments and agencies; the employee verification exercise for all entities in the Central Government wage bill; and the creation and application of strict unambiguous rules regarding all types of employment in the public sector.

Head of the UWI Open Campus — Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Education Institute, Danny Roberts, who is the committee’s co-chair, said that PSTOC will be “focused on ensuring that the public is provided with honest, accurate and timely information on the transformation process because the real benefits of the exercise to them are two-fold”.

The release said the committee is firm in its core objective, which is to ensure that the transformation process attains the highest benefits for the people of Jamaica.