Dear Editor,
A young relative of mine employed at her first ever paid job, works currently with the Bureau of Statistics as a temporary staff along with over seventy other staff, both male and female of all ages, and have been housed in a three-storey wooden building, as their office, at the corner of Parade and Barrack streets in Kingston, Georgetown, for the past six months. She says that their employer, which is a department of the Ministry of Finance, does not provide them (or make available to them) basic personal hygiene requirements i.e. toilet paper and soap to attend to their daily personal hygiene when they have to visit the toilet/bathroom/washroom there.
She complains amusingly, that she finds it insulting and disrespectful to her female dignity that she was asked to take her own toilet paper from home to use if and when she wants to visit the toilet/bathroom at her work place. Further she complains that in this twenty-first century that she has to provide her own soap to wash her hands when she finishes her business in the bathroom of her employer, too.
In this day and age, any employer that is worthy of his salt needs to provide these basic hygiene requirements. This is also acknowledged by the International Labour Organization (ILO) with employers all over this world.
I trust that the B.O.S. would investigate this matter and remedy it.
Yours faithfully,
(Name and address supplied)
