Further Revision Ordered For Labour Code

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Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:30

By caribarena news

Antigua St. John’s - A new association, Human Resource Practitioners of Antigua & Barbuda (HRPAB), has jumped on board with its own suggestions for the revised Antigua & Barbuda Labour Code and, according to the instructions of Minister of Labour Dr. Hon. Errol Cort, these suggestions should be given favourable consideration.

The addition is of obvious concern to some members of the National Labour Board who have invested time and resources into producing a document that continues to show little sign of ever being completed.
 

The bone of contention is that fledgling organisations continue to inject their own interests into the document, even after being represented on the board from the onset.
 
With that, some board members claim there are some notably strange occurrences taking place at the National Labour Board.
 
Subsequent investigations by this publication has discovered the bypassing, either by accident or design, of members of the Board in favour of those on a Select Committee put in place to deal with the Cabinet aspect of the revised Labour Code negotiations.
 
Caribarena has been reliably informed by persons close to the National Labour Board and by confirmed information contained in paragraph one of minutes of the meeting held on May 22, 2012, that the Minister of Labour Dr. Hon. Errol Cort has requested that the Select Committee and not the Labour Board should examine the feedback received from Cabinet during the Board’s presentation in April, and make adjustments as the committee sees fit.
 
Caribarena understands that any feedback from the Cabinet on matters relating to the Labour Code should have been directed back at the National Labour Board for discussions and not to the Select Committee as it was not within the latter’s outlined mandate.
 
Paragraph two of that same document goes on to note that the Labour Minister had suggested that an eye also be given to the submissions made by the Human Resource Practitioners of Antigua & Barbuda, with suggestions for possible amendments to the already revised Labour Code incorporated based on their merits.

Sources also cited this submission as “quite interesting,” noting that it was actually the Small Business Association that wanted to “hijack the process after the Board had completed its work.”
 

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This suggestion not only means a further delay in the implementation of the revised code, but according to senior labour officers, it comes as a slap in the face of the hard work put in by the members of the board to produce a rounded document.
 

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