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Union: Law reform needed to protect workers in 2021
Friday 1 January 2021
President General of the All Trinidad General Workers Trade Union Nirvan Maharaj is calling on the government to make legislative reform a priority to prevent mass retrenchment in 2021.
The union also suggested, in a release on Thursday, that the government work towards dealing with the steady increase of unemployment, caused by restrictions to reduce the spread of covid19, through the protection of the law.
It said reform is necessary during the pandemic especially “when many companies unjustifiably are attempting to use covid19 as an excuse to circumvent existing collective agreements, reduce the labour force and force existing workers to multi-task and do two and three jobs at the same time, unilaterally implement decisions adversely affecting workers, exploit and oppress workers to the maximum.”