Industrial relations tensions arising out of adjustments to customary public service work schedules on account of the imponderables of the COVID-19 pandemic, are beginning to arise in some Caribbean territories.
The threat of such an eventuality surfaced in Trinidad and Tobago last week after the Head of the Public Service Association (PSA) the trade union representing the twin-island republic’s public servants, proffered a militant response to a back-to-work order to public servants issued by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley as part of the wider lifting of the COVID-19-related restrictive measures on the twin-island Republic.
