GPL workers to get 8% pay hike

In photo, Guyana Power and Light’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Aeshwar Deonarine signs the 8% wage increase agreement while to his left CEO of the company Bharat Dindyal and NAACIE’s President, Kenneth Joseph look on.

At least 600 workers of the state-owned Guyana Power and Light Company Inc. (GPL) are to receive an eight percent salary hike retroactive to January 1st of this year, even as the utility company complains that it is in dire financial straits.

GPL and the workers’ union, the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE), inked the wage agreement yesterday, after two rounds of talks that were a stark