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Security Guard Taskforce, Marksman continue legal battle

The claim by trade unionist Rudolph Thomas that fixed-term contracts are being “weaponised” against workers is another reminder of the government’s lagging labour market agenda, including its failure to seriously engage Jamaicans on a labour...

Almost a year after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling which determined that security guards at Marksman Limited were employees and not independent contractors, a newly formed Security Guard Task...

Veteran trade unionist Vincent Morrison has charged that last September's Supreme Court ruling which upgraded the status of security guards from independent contractors to employees, "is in large ...

THERE have been charges and counter-charges in segments of the private security industry regarding players who say they have upgraded the status of their guards from contractors to employees as pe...

LABOUR Minister Karl Samuda is urging security guards who are disgruntled over their employment contracts to bring their cases directly to the ministry, as it has no concrete reports of employment...

In seeking to protect workers from the unsavoury practices of some employers who are favouring contract workers (contract for service) over permanent full-time employees (contract of service), Gov...

THE Government is moving to amend over 500 contracts to upgrade the status of guards — hired through security guard firms to provide services at ministries, departments and agencies — to employees...

JAMAICANS have been expecting legislative changes to begin following a recent ruling by the Revenue Court that security guards engaged by Marksman Limited are employees and not contract workers an...

KINGSTON, Jamaica— Several placard-bearing security guards staged a protest in the middle of Cross Roads in Kingston Monday morning. The guards say they are protesting the injustices in their sector ...