Over 400 Rose Hall workers laid off

Rose Hall sugar workers protesting in May this year.

Over 400 workers from GuySuCo’s Rose Hall Estate received letters of redundancy yesterday and have been notified that they will be without a job in a month.

According to a letter that was received by one of the workers, which was seen by Stabroek News, entitled ‘Junior Staff Redundancy Notification’, the staff will be made officially redundant on December 29, which will be their last working day.

GuySuCo officials could not be reached yesterday. The layoffs come despite a recent statement by Minister of State Joseph Harmon that  the closure of the Rose Hall estate which was slated for the end of this year may not occur until next year.