These include critical employees of the Department of Public Health, like doctors and nurses, as well as those of the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Corrections, the Public School System and Northern Marianas College.
The people should understand the CNMI government’s financial situation, he said.
“Let us not try to fill vacated positions and those that are already declared vacant positions,” he added.
Lt. Gov. Eloy S. Inos on Tuesday said the government had overspent between $23 million and $24 million in FY 2010, which will end on Sept. 30.
The CNMI government, he added, is now struggling to meet payroll.
Today will be a payless payday for nonessential government employees, who have also been advised that their next two paychecks will be delayed also.
The CNMI government is the primary employer of local residents.
