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Workers protest dictatorial practices at Lusignan Gold Club

Oct 18, 2015 News

A group of angry former employees of the Lusignan Golf Club are in consultations with their attorneys following their involuntary removal from the entity.
The workers, some of whom were fired and others who decided to walk are blaming their woes on a top executive member of the club, Omcar Ramroop, who they accuse of operating in an undemocratic and insulting manner.
They also claim that the executive member’s appointment to his current post at the club is unconstitutional and are eagerly anticipating the next election of office bearers.
Among the workers affected are a supervisor, the club’s barman, a grounds man and a senior cook at the canteen.
Their absence has left the club in a spot of bother, with patrons and other club members being slightly inconvenienced.
Speaking to this newspaper, one of the employees described the executive member as more than a dictator who is making the mistake of micromanaging the club.
The employee explained that the executive member has taken it upon himself to be the sole checker of financial transactions at the club without any other person to cross check after he is done.
He is also being accused of arbitrarily breaking the credit rules of the club in favour of friends.
“He is deciding by himself who to go after and who we must allow to go over their (credit) limit, and when we object, we are being verbally abused,” one of the affected employees told this newspaper.
The Lusignan Golf Club which is the only such facility in Guyana caters to top business executives, such as bankers and CEOs as well as members of the diplomatic corps.
Another worker who said that she “could not take the pressure anymore” complained of being belittled in the presence of club members and their guests.
“The Ministry of labour should look into this situation because the persons who he took over from never treated us like this,” the former kitchen staff lamented.
But not everyone sees the executive member in the same light the employees are portraying him.
Former Club President Jerome Khan told this newspaper that he is surprised that the employees would make such allegations against Ramroop.
According to Khan, Ramroop does not strike him as a person who would engage in such behaviour. The former President however noted that since he left the club’s executive committee a few years ago for personal reasons, the entity has been mired in controversy. He acknowledged that most of the current executive were not elected but were merely appointed, which he hinted was unconstitutional.
This confirms the concerns of the workers about Ramroop’s position.
But according to Khan, there appears to be something sinister in the making since he said that Ramroop has been instrumental in bringing some level of transparency with regard to the functioning of the Lusignan Golf Club.
Nevertheless, the workers are calling for a full audit of the club and they are also appealing to the labour ministry to look into the labour practices there too.
“This man has employed some teenagers to work there,” an aggrieved worker lamented.

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