Labor Reform with Mass Layoffs Begins in Cuba

HAVANA TIMES, Jan. 4 — The labor reform in the state sector, which will represent the laying off of half a million persons by the end of March, begins today in Cuba in the ministries of the sugar industry, agriculture, construction, public health and tourism, announced Salvador Valdés, general secretary of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions, the only union organization in the country, reported IPS.

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