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The National Trade Union Centre (NATUC) is standing in solidarity with over 10,500 terminated Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) workers. Furthermore, it is calling on Government to absorb the workers into the existing contractual framework of the company until it resolves issues it has highlighted.
This follows widespread fear and uncertainty expressed by affected workers yesterday, after they reported to work and were finally told by the terminated contractors that they no longer had jobs. The contractors received their termination letters on Friday but the majority of them only officially communicated what this meant to workers yesterday.
In a release yesterday, while NATUC general secretary Michael Annisette acknowledged Government’s concerns about poor governance in the programme under the former People’s National Movement administration, he said workers should not be punished for the alleged misconduct of politically connected contractors.
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