President Bharrat Jagdeo will be meeting on Monday with the employees who were recently retrenched by Barama Company Limited.
Describing the situation as unfortunate, Jagdeo said that he will be meeting with the former workers to see what assistance he could offer. “I’m going to do something ,at least transitionally,” the President said last evening while delivering the feature address at the Guyana Labour Union’s (GLU)’s 6th Triennial Delegates Congress at the Princess Hotel.
On October 15, 274 of the company’s employees employed at its Land of Canaan office were formally laid off with a promise of severance pay amid a stunning turn of events caused by damage to a vital water boiler on October 4. Many workers were left in a quandary about their futures.
Vice President of the GLU Winston Joseph, in his address last evening, said that the workers had been paid their full severance benefits, which was above what was agreed in the Collective Labour Agreement signed between the union and the company. He said that efforts are being made to secure jobs for these employees in addition to offering opportunities for some of these workers to do some retraining.
