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#BTEditorial – We want to know the jobless figure, too

#BTEditorial – We want to know the jobless figure, too Article by December 11, 2020 Since the sudden, drastic and unprecedented economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic, there have been calls from many quarters for Government to state the official unemployment figure. Many are rightly concerned about where we have found ourselves as a developing nation. The only way we can get ourselves out of the rot and start to work towards a sound economic plan of action is if we know exactly where we are. Indeed, any chance of us recovering will require “all hands on deck” as our Prime Minister has reminded us time and time again.

PM: Multiple rate floors for workers coming

December 11, 2020 A national minimum wage, variable across industries, much talked about but never implemented, appears to have emerged from a deal to end the Barbados Workers’ Union’s standoff with guard firm G4S Solutions (Barbados) Ltd over pay. After four days of negotiations, Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced “a seminal moment” in labour history in which the Government would move to a national pay floor by April while G4S agreed to raise its security officers’ wages from $7.42 an hour to $8.79 an hour from January 1. The guards went on strike twice within the last two weeks to protest G4S’s refusal to give them a raise for the past six years, prompting the BWU to threaten a general strike.

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