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Labour boss says no to forced vacation to cover quarantine
Employers are being warned that workers cannot be forced to use their accumulated vacation time in order to cover periods during which the employee needs to quarantine due to exposure to the Covid-19 virus.
The caution was made by the Deputy Labour Commissioner Pascal Kentish during a panel discussion put on by the Antigua and Barbuda Workers’ Union over the weekend.
Kentish explained that the law does not mandate employers to pay their workers during periods of quarantine, “neither can the employer require the employee to take vacation because, under the law, vacation is by mutual agreement”.
Blue Waters Hotel to close for one month
The 116-room hotel, which opened its doors in 1960, is one of Antigua and Barbuda’s longest running resorts (Photo courtesy Travel Weekly)
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By Gemma Handy
One of the country’s longest running resorts is to close its doors this month after plummeting bookings due to travel restrictions in its biggest source markets left it struggling to stay afloat.
Blue Waters’ 134 staff were told of the initial month-long closure starting January 28 at a meeting yesterday.
The award-winning, 116-room luxury complex has been in operation since 1960.
“Plan A was to stay open and try to ride this out as best we could, but it’s out of our control now,” general manager Kevin Phillips told Observer.