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GPL to dismiss 75 workers

Dec 09, 2009 News

Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) will be retrenching some 75 employees with full benefits.
General Secretary of the National Agricultural and Industrial Employees Union (NACCIE), Kenneth Joseph, told Kaieteur News yesterday that the union has been informed of GPL’s intentions and discussions are currently ongoing.
According to Joseph, the power company claims that it no longer needs the services of the employees given the fact that GPL is receiving power from the Skeldon estate and the Kingston Power plant. This has decreased the demand for labour.
Joseph explained that the power company had initially targeted November 30, last to issue the employees with severance letters, but that did not materialise. He said that GPL is now targeting December 15, 2009 as the dismissal date.
However, Joseph said this chosen date by GPL is a bit insensitive, given that workers are preparing for Christmas and the New Year.
The union is also challenging GPL reason for dismissing the workers. According to Joseph, the Skeldon estate and the Kingston Power Plant is not providing the adequate amount of power that GPL currently needs.
The union is aggressively pushing for the workers to receive benefits that would enable them to live easily, while seeking other jobs.
When contacted yesterday, Human Resources Manager of GPL, Dale Deroy, refused to comment on the situation.
But the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bharat Dindyal told the ‘Caribbean Net News on Monday that with a recent inter-connection to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Skeldon operation, which is providing 14 megawatts of power and the commissioning of a 20.7 megawatts Computer Operated Wartsila Power Plant in Georgetown, GPL no longer needs the services of the 75 workers.
“With the 20.7 megawatt Kingston Power Station in operation we could stop operating those diesel required sets… Of course when you stop operating them there would not be a need for the people there if you are not generating,” Dindyal was quoted in the Caribbean Net News as saying.
He added that the 75 employees will be severed from three of the company’s power station in Demerara and will be fully compensated.
“The provision of the Severance Pay Act in our conditions is superior to that of the average separation so its not any meager sum… in fact the average benefits comes up to one and a half million dollars.”

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