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27 Feb 2017

Author:
Stabroek News (Guyana)

Guyana: Trade union to sue Guyana Sugar Corporation over denial of severance payments to sugar cane workers

"GAWU mulling court action over denial of severance to 375 Wales workers", 24 Feb 2017

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) is considering legal action on behalf of about 375 Wales Estate cane- cutters and cane transporters who it says are being denied severance payments by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).  It is “illegal for the workers to be denied their severance pay…” GAWU President Komal Chand told...[W]hen the workers become redundant at an estate and the closest alternative location for employment is more than 10 miles away, the workers are entitled to severance payments.  GuySuCo has offered jobs to the Wales workers at the Uitvlugt estate but...they have refused because the distance from Wales is about 32 miles...The cane- cutters and cane transporters are determined to be paid and have held protests...Chand also spoke about the lack of consultations with the workers by government officials regarding their plans to close the estate...Forty-two workers have accepted jobs at Uitvlugt...[T]hese comprise mainly young people with limited service who would not have been entitled to a substantial severance package.

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