ALMOND?BEACH?CLUB will have new owners next month; and that could have implications for the 150 plus staffers at the St James resort.
At a standing room only staff meeting a few days ago, chaired by acting chief executive officer Monty Cumberbatch, workers were told that the hotel would be changing hands by July 31 and that their terms and conditions would remain the same with the potential buyers, who are still to be identified.
Cumberbatch, accompanied by Almond Resorts Inc. director of human resources Marsha Alleyne, Almond Beach Club director Gerry Lewis and the Barbados Workers’ Union’s (BWU) hotel lead negotiator LeVere Richards, made it clear that current staff would be carrying over the years spent with the company and that no one would be severed.
