NUGFW: 124 SWRHA workers sent home

RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

A to­tal of 124 dai­ly-paid work­ers at the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) have been sent home, with the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) call­ing on the au­thor­i­ty’s man­age­ment to ex­plain the de­ci­sion and ad­dress con­cerns about the af­fect­ed em­ploy­ees’ out­stand­ing over­time pay­ments.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, NUGFW South­ern Di­vi­sion Ex­ec­u­tive pres­i­dent Ja­son Gor­don said the work­ers re­port­ed for du­ty yes­ter­day but were in­formed that their ser­vices were no longer re­quired.