Minister to intervene in nurses’ grievances
MASERU-LABOUR Minister Moshe Leoma yesterday pledged to instruct the Labour Commissioner to investigate the striking nurses’ grievances against Queen ’Mamohato Memorial Hospital.
The pledge was made as part of a deal the minister signed with the Coalition of Health Professionals (CHP) and the Lesotho Workers Association (Lewa).
The HPA and Lewa had written to Leoma suggesting that he should follow the Labour Code Order which gives him powers to intervene when providers of essential services are in dispute with their employers.
The Code says if a minister sees that “a trade dispute threatens the continuance of any essential service he or she may call upon the Commissioner of Labour to investigate” the dispute within 10 days.