Rattan Chand Khushiram, an avid contributor on economic issues, better known under the pen-name RChand. Headed the Economic Analysis and Research (EARS) unit of the ex-MEPD and was till recently, Director of the Research and Sustainability Division (ReSD) at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MOFED)
At the Round Table organized by the Confederation of workers of the private sector (CSTP) on the new Labour laws, the representatives of the Mauritius Employers Federation and the Minister of Labour were conspicuously absent.