Veteran trade unionist and advisor to the general secretary of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU), Sir Roy Trotman, believes Government’s current retrenchment exercise could have been handled much better.
This comes after the BWU’s latest meeting with the Rural Development Commission (RDC) put a temporary halt to the state-owned enterprise’s plans to lay off 20 workers as part of the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) programme.
“There has been the need for urgency but I think there has to be some lapse period between the discovery of the need to have a cut and the information that goes to the individuals,” Sir Roy told the media on Thursday after a meeting with RDC staff.
“A person should not go to work today and go back home the same day with news that that person is no longer employed. There has to be some means by which we break news of that sort in a manner that is much more humane.” (AD)
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