Out-of-work former Berger Paints employees will get a 12 per cent salary increase back dated to January 2025.
The paint company closed down on April 24 and general secretary of the Barbados Workers’ Union Toni Moore revealed yesterday that the workers had secured the settlement.
“The workers got a 12 per cent salary increase effective January 1, 2025. On top of severance already calculated, they will get back pay for the last 16 months and their severance calculations will be adjusted to reflect it,” she said.
Moore stated that the settlement was reached on Thursday morning with much effort as the Trinidadian company ANSA McAl Group ended operations of the paint company here.
She spoke at the BWU’s anniversary picnic and family Affair at the National Botanical Gardens as the country marked May Day, the internationally recognised day to celebrate labourers and the working classes “To secure that benefit for those workers, many of them after an average of 20 years working there, we had to fight hard. We had to fight harder than anybody should have to fight for things that were already merited to them,” Moore said. (TRY)
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