THE HEAD of The Productivity Council John Pilgrim today called for the problems facing Barbados’ Social Partnership to be addressed.
He said the fragmented nature of the working partnership between trade unions, employers and the government was adversely affecting the labour landscape.
The Social partnership sets the parameters in which the government, the unions and employers work out pay and other conditions of work in the private and public sectors.
However, that arrangement was jolted months ago by the withdrawal of the island’s largest private sector union – the Barbados Workers Union (BWU), citing a number of concerns.
Pilgrim said the social compact “should be revisited in a particular way to assure that we obtain the level of national results that ought to be because, to my mind, that mechanism is an important variable in any equation when it comes to ensuring that national productivity or even enterprise productivity or sectoral productivity is properly addressed”. (TY)
