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Get the Apps Labour minister says aggrieved hotel workers will get their missing severance Article by May 15, 2021 Frustrated former hotel workers, including those from the Accra Beach Hotel and Spa, have been given the assurance that they will receive outstanding severance despite continuous broken promises from their previous employer. Minister of Labour and Social Partnership Relations Colin Jordan was responding to a fresh round of protests involving severed Accra Beach employees and those from the Hilton Barbados Resort, who were left on the breadline in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. After loud protests last December, the former Accra staff secured over 70 per cent of their outstanding pay with a promise from management, backed by tourism minister Senator Lisa Cummins that the remaining monies, including payment in lieu of notice, would be delivered no later than the 31st of March. ....
Article by Social Share Opposition Senator Caswell Franklyn says Government’s 2021 timeline for finally addressing the decades-old issue of a national minimum wage, is yet another example of the Mia Amor Mottley’s administration’s dim view of labour. Franklyn, who heads Unity Workers Union, said the protracted issue of a liveable wage for workers deserved the same level of immediacy which Government gave to hoteliers during their ongoing severance bind. He argued that since the 1970s, the issue of a national minimum wage had been used as a proverbial carrot and stick dangled before the Barbadian working class. “There has been talk of a national minimum wage going back to the 1970s when I was at school, but nobody has ever taken it seriously. It has been a talking point that politicians have used to make people feel good, and then they forget about them and this seems to me like more of the same,” he said. ....