Workers at Preconco Ltd are at this moment off the job. Preliminary reports suggest some workers were sent home, including shop stewards, and deputy general secretary of the Barbados Workers’ Union, Dwaine Paul, is currently meeting with employees at the Lears, St Michael business. More details as they come. (SB) [embed]https://youtu.be/BwotAczZnLM[/embed]
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The Board of the National Insurance Department submitted a report to the Ministry of Finance last week to be recognised as a statutory corporation.
Currently, the organisation which oversees Barbados’ social security scheme functions as a department within the Ministry, severely hampering its ability to make certain strategic decisions, says chairman of the National Insurance Scheme, Leslie Haynes, QC.
He was speaking on Wednesday evening during the latest COVID management update by Government which featured Minister of Labour Colin Jordan; Acting Director of NIS, Jennifer Hunte; and Chief Labour Officer, Claudette Hope-Greenidge.
They spoke on the topic
COVID-19: Your Workplace and You.
Scheme going after change in status
Article by March 4, 2021
The board of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is making moves to become a statutory body.
This was revealed by chairman of the NIS board, Queen’s Counsel Leslie Haynes, who said the board had already submitted its request to the Ministry of Finance and was awaiting a decision.
“The NIS board is a unique board. It is the only board of a department of Central Government, so that it is in a strange position that you have a board which sets policy yet the staff essentially reports directly to the Ministry of Finance. This COVID has made us realize that in order to better improve efficiencies at the NIS, the board resolved that we should transition to a statutory body,” Haynes said during a press conference tonight.
March 2, 2021
Barbados has recorded an increase in reported cases of domestic violence during the recent COVID-19 lockdown, many of which were intimate partner violence.
Representative of the UN WOMEN Multi-Country Office Caribbean, Tonni Brodber, said today that in March 2020 there was a 125 per cent increase in domestic violence cases, and in April 2020 an 88 per cent rate had been reported.
Speaking during the virtual launch of the Gender-Based Violence in the Workplace Project, a partnership between the Ministry of Labour and Social Partnership Relations and UN Women, Brodber said Barbados’ statistics were a reflection of an increase in domestic violence reports across the OECS during the lockdown.