Sugar workers are to receive a boost with the payment of weekly production incentives following a gap of two years.
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) in a release yesterday stated that thousands of sugar workers across regions 3, 4, 5 and 6, at its three operating estates are to receive Weekly Production Incentives (WPI) and other incentives for the 1st crop, 2021 by tomorrow.
WPI is one of several initiatives in place to boost employees’ productivity. It was implemented on May 13, 1989 replacing the monthly bonus initiative which was earned by achieving the estates’ set weekly production targets. According to the release, the payment of a WPI is based on the individual estate’s achievement of one hundred per cent or more of its weekly target. Once the targets are achieved, qualified employees on the estate receive one day’s pay. If the estate’s achievement is one hundred and thirty per cent or more of its target, then qualified employees on the estate receive two days’ pay.
