January 15, 2021
We have heard repeatedly that COVID-19 presents unprecedented challenges in these unprecedented times. We get it.
The fallout of the pandemic socially and economically is all too apparent. That is why we empathise with employers just as much as we feel the pain of employees.
But even in the face of this mayhem and uncertainty, we cannot in good faith condone any situations that are not just or fair to our workers.
We reported Wednesday that prominent attorney-at-law Michael Lashley QC called for measures to be put in place to shield workers from victimisation.
Lashley said: “They are being pressured and my position is that it is indeed an unlawful act by the employer to say to that employee, ‘you have to come back to work or else’ when you have a situation where someone is waiting on a test.
Public officials map out new plans for sector
Article by December 18, 2020
Government said Thursday it will take fresh guard with its culture portfolio, signalling its intent on breathing new life into every aspect of the sector as the country emerges from the grip of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Key public officials met this week with Prime Minister Mia Mottley for more than three hours, as the first step in what will be a series of wider consultations with partners across the sector.
The talks ranged from the raising of the profile of the Rock Hall Freedom Park in St. Thomas to the virtual remaking of Queen’s Park into a facility with a genuinely Bajan character as the island’s cultural capital, plans for the rekindling of dormant youth and cultural groups in communities across the island and the formation of new ones, to setting the 150-year-old Barbados Landship on the new voyage.
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Government is taking fresh guard with its Culture portfolio, intent of breathing new life into every aspect of the sector as the country emerges from the grip of the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Key public sector stakeholders met recently with Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley for more than three hours, as the first step in what will be a series of wider consultations with partners across the sector.
The talks touched on most aspects of the portfolio, ranging from the raising of the profile of the Rock Hall Freedom Park in St Thomas to the virtual remaking of Queen’s Park into a facility with a genuinely Bajan character as the island’s cultural capital, plans for the rekindling of dormant youth and cultural groups in communities across the island and the formation of new ones, to setting the 150-year-old Barbados Landship on the new voyage.
SSA workers ‘restless’
Article by December 12, 2020
Within a day of the end of an industrial relation dispute that threatened a national strike another row was brewing Friday among “restless” Sanitation Service Authority workers.
Just Thursday night, Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced the end of a standoff between the security firm G4S and the workers represented by the Barbados Workers Union.
Now the SSA workers’ representative, the National Union of Public Workers warned that protest action could be on the cards if management fails to take action on long-running issues.
“Workers are getting restless so the environment is one that definitely can lead to protest action, NUPW deputy general secretary Wayne Walrond told
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