Min­is­ter of Labour, Small and Mi­cro En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment, Leroy Bap­tiste, has reaf­firmed Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing work­ers’ rights and ad­vanc­ing de­cent work as Trinidad and To­ba­go marks Labour Day 2026.

In a mes­sage com­mem­o­rat­ing the oc­ca­sion, Bap­tiste said Labour Day serves as a mo­ment to ho­n­our the ded­i­ca­tion, re­silience and sac­ri­fices of work­ers and trade union­ists whose ef­forts se­cured many of the rights and pro­tec­tions en­joyed to­day. He not­ed that their lega­cy con­tin­ues to shape na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment and in­spires on­go­ing ef­forts to build a more in­clu­sive and pros­per­ous so­ci­ety.

Bap­tiste said the Gov­ern­ment re­mains fo­cused on fos­ter­ing strong part­ner­ships be­tween the State, em­ploy­ers and labour or­gan­i­sa­tions, while mod­ernising labour leg­is­la­tion through the Work­ers’ Agen­da. He added that the agen­da was de­vel­oped in con­sul­ta­tion with stake­hold­ers and is aimed at im­prov­ing work­ing con­di­tions, strength­en­ing work­place pro­tec­tions and en­sur­ing laws re­flect the re­al­i­ties of to­day’s world of work.