More than a month after a team from the Ministry of Social Protection toured the operations of the majority Russian-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) in the Berbice River, a report from the ministry says the standards and value systems of the company in key areas of employer/employee relations including respect for workers’ rights and occupational safety and health are “unacceptable by any measure.”
This newspaper has seen sections of a report prepared by the ministry in the wake of a visit to the BCGI operations by a team headed by Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection Simona Broomes. Some 19 breaches were cited during an inspection by the team that included Assistant Chief Labour Occupational Safety and Health Officer Lydia Greene
