The claim by trade unionist Rudolph Thomas that fixed-term contracts are being “weaponised” against workers is another reminder of the government’s lagging labour market agenda, including its failure to seriously engage Jamaicans on a labour.
Almost a year after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling which determined that security guards at Marksman Limited were employees and not independent contractors, a newly formed Security Guard Task.
Veteran trade unionist Vincent Morrison has charged that last September's Supreme Court ruling which upgraded the status of security guards from independent contractors to employees, "is in large .
THERE have been charges and counter-charges in segments of the private security industry regarding players who say they have upgraded the status of their guards from contractors to employees as pe.