East Demerara Estate Integration…No. of redundant workers will be determined after filling vacancies at Enmore

East Demerara Estate Integration…No. of redundant workers will be determined after filling vacancies at Enmore – GuySuCo

Apr 19, 2016 News

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday stated that the number of workers that will be made redundant after the East Demerara Estate Integration, will be determined after filling the existing vacancies at the Enmore Estate.
GuySuCo and the two Trade Unions representing the workers – the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE), are in discussion to have this process completed by the end of May, 2016, GuySuCo stated yesterday.
In a release issue by the company yesterday, the La Bonne Intention (LBI) factory was closed in March, 2011; which would have been an attempt to integrate the LBI and Enmore Estates into one production entity to optimize the use of the limited pool of labour.
The factories at both estates, the company stated, at the time, were significantly under-utilized as a result of the shortage of field labour.
“For the integration of the two estates into one production unit to make sense, the duplicated activities should have been rationalized in the same year but this was not done and resulted in further deterioration in the economics of the East Demerara operation.
“The East Demerara Estate’s cost of production increased from US0:26 cents to 30 cents per pound prior to the closure of the LBI factory to US0:41 cents per pound after the closure, peaking at US54 cents in 2013,” the release stated.
“It behooves the current management to expedite the completion of the integration of the Enmore and LBI Estates into the East Demerara Estate to try and prevent sugar production in East Demerara from going out of existence in the near future.”
The Mill Dock operation is only necessary where there is a factory. However, the closure of the factory rendered the Mill Dock redundant.
“Retaining it for the past five years represents keeping approximately 58 persons on the payroll with no productive work to do and transporting canes from the LBI cultivation to the Enmore factory in a more costly manner.
The LBI section, GuySuCo continued has 846 employees— 710 Field Workers and 136 Junior Staff. Of this total number, approximately 125 are duplicating functions which are currently being undertaken at Enmore.
These include 58 personnel in the Mill Dock, 38 workers in the Field Workshop; the remainder of the 125, in the Field Laboratory, Field Office and Stores categories.
“The numbers that will be made redundant will be determined after filling existing vacancies at Enmore. GuySuCo, GAWU and NAACIE are in discussion to have this process completed by the end of May, 2016.”

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