ANOTHER MAJOR CONSTRUCTION company is sending home staff.
Effective today, about 60 workers of Rayside Construction Ltd will be off the job.
The decision to lay off the weekly paid workers came yesterday following a two-hour meeting between officials from the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU)? and the company’s management.
The workers, who are mainly involved in road construction, said their notices indicated that they would only be out of work for one week.
But some of them fear they could be on the breadline for much longer, having been told by management last Friday to collect their documents yesterday to take to the National Insurance Department for unemployment benefits.
They were also told they would receive a day’s pay for showing up yesterday.
The layoffs come three months after C.O. Williams Construction Company served similar notices on approximately 35 of its road construction staff.
In addition to a slowdown in business, the company said it was owed millions by Government.
