Unions NAACIE and GTUC yesterday rebuffed suggestions by former Chief Labour Officer Mohamed Akeel that Labour Minister Dr Nanda Gopaul may not have adhered to the legal procedure required for creating and implementing the new National Minimum Wage Order.
“We would like to state that much more was done in accordance with the law on this issue than he ever attempted to do when he was Chief Labour Officer,” the unions said in a joint statement. The unions are members of the tripartite committee which considered and helped birth the new order.
In a detailed letter published in last Friday’s edition of the Stabroek News, Akeel said that the
