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Unlawful to prevent employees from voting today
– Labour Minister
Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir has assured that it is unlawful for any company to prevent its employees from being allowed to exercise their franchise today which has also been declared a Public Holiday.
He says that it is unlawful for an employer to deny its employees this right, especially on a Public Holiday.
Nadir was at the time responding to allegations that the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI owned by RUSAL) at Aroiama and Kwakwani will not be allowing its employees time off to go and vote today.
One of the stakeholders involved in the election had reported that the workers will not, as traditionally is the case, be released from work from yesterday afternoon in order to travel to their respective polling districts in order to vote today.
Persons will only be allowed to vote at the polling station in the district where they would have been registered or have lodged a change of address with the Guyana Elections Commission.
BCGI has reportedly informed its workers that they will only be released from this morning even though they would have completed their work yesterday afternoon.
The stakeholder making the complaint is concerned about the development, since many of the company’s workers live far distances away from Aroiama and Kwakwani and if they are to leave this morning they may not get to their respective polling stations in order to vote.
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