GPL and employees reach agreement

Dec 15, 2009 News

The 75 employees to be dismissed by the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) reached an agreement with the power company during the course of the weekend. General Secretary of the National Agricultural and Industrial Employees Union (NACCIE), Kenneth Joseph, told Kaieteur News yesterday that the employees held a meeting with GPL, where it was agreed that each employee will be paid two months’ salary instead of one.
The workers will also be paid according to their years of service and will receive their full benefits from their pension scheme.
According to Joseph, the union has also agreed with this package that takes effect from today when the severance letters would be served.
He explained that although the union did not receive any complaints from the employees in relation to the agreement, the workers were still given a chance to make their suggestions and reject the package.
Joseph said that the union will continue its work to ensure that GPL stands by the agreement made so that the employees will get their full benefits. Recently, Kaieteur News reported that GPL was retrenching the 75 employees since their services were no longer needed, given the fact that GPL is now receiving power from the Skeldon estate and the Kingston Power plant, thus the demand for labour has decreased.
The company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Bharat Dindyal, had told the ‘Caribbean Net News recently that with a recent inter-connection to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Skeldon operation, which is providing 14 Mega Watts of power and the commissioning of a 20.7 Mega Watts Computer Operated Wartsila Power Plant in Georgetown, GPL no longer needs the services of the 75 workers.
“With the 20.7 operation set we have here now 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 stations 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 benefit comes up to one and a half million dollars per worker.”

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