RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Labour Min­is­ter Leroy Bap­tiste is urg­ing mi­grants and work­ers to re­port cas­es of work­place ex­ploita­tion, af­ter a reg­is­tered Venezue­lan mi­grant, Suyin Escalona Salazar, al­leged she was dis­missed and de­nied wages fol­low­ing three months of work at a Gulf City restau­rant.

Salazar told Guardian Me­dia she worked at Gua­camole Mex­i­can Grill for three months, earn­ing $21 per hour. She said she in­formed her em­ploy­er via What­sApp that she was ill, but when she re­turned to work a week lat­er, she was fired and told she would not be paid for Jan­u­ary 12-18, to­talling $1,149.17.Salazar said her hands be­came swollen while per­form­ing du­ties, which pre­vent­ed her from work­ing for a week.