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Article by January 30, 2021
The Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Association (CTUSAB) has thrown its support behind hazard pay for health care workers, suggesting that while frontline workers are likely to be the first to receive the payment in the current environment, discussions must now be held to extend the payment to others.
Hazard pay concerns came to the fore in recent weeks as nurses at several health care facilities staged work stoppages to demand the allowance, which has been made to employees at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
January 28, 2021
The two-week lockdown has not gone down well with a key spokesman of the private sector, despite the full backing of the trade union movement, the medical profession and the island’s key political players.
While the business community has said it will adhere to the order for the country to halt all but essential business operations from Wednesday, Edward Clarke, the chairman of the Barbados Private Sector Association is adamant that the action by the Mia Mottley administration is unnecessary.
The position emerged from talks between the Social Partnership and Government in recent days.
On Tuesday night, the Prime Minister outlined several restrictions that would take effect from next Wednesday which are aimed at bringing community spread of the coronavirus under control.
One union has sent in its proposals for hazard pay for more front-line workers, but another says it will not be following suit as there is already a level of hazard pay for workers such as nurses. Acting general secretary of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW), Wayne Walrond, confirmed yesterday that their proposal had been submitted to Government last Friday evening. “You have other medical staff, pharmacists, orderlies, …
PM issues warning against unreasonable demands
Article by January 21, 2021
Prime Minister Mia Mottley today assured all healthcare frontline workers engaged in the COVID-19 fight that they will be granted hazard pay, but under certain conditions.
Mottley, who is also Minister of Finance, warned the workers during a press conference to update the country on the latest developments surrounding the coronavirus, that the Government would only be able to afford so much and no more.
In fact, the Prime Minister put the employees and unions on notice that any demands for hazard pay that exceeded what her administration could afford, would plunge the country further back into economic troubles.
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