A NEW WAVE OF INSPECTIONS is being planned as the Ministry of Labour moves to rein in employers failing to provide documentation mandated under the Employment Rights Act.
In making the announcement Saturday night, Minister of Labour, Social Security and Human Resource Development, Senator Dr Esther Byer Suckoo, said employers needed to fulfil their legal obligations even as she responded to their concerns that the act was one-sided.
“Surely it is obvious to all, that in the workplace, especially with only about 30 per cent of workers having trade union representation, the employer, the one who pays the piper, wields all the power.
“The Employment Rights Act of 2012 was therefore an instrument that was designed to bring a balance of power to a relationship that otherwise, by its very nature, is and has always been one-sided but in favour of the employer,” she said. (WILLCOMM)
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