Cash-strapped GuySuCo unable to pay monthly workers

Sep 29, 2019 News

Due to the financial difficulties that the Guyana Sugar Co-operation (GuySuCo) is currently facing, the sugar company is unable to pay its monthly paid workers.

Assistant General Secretary of Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) – Mr. Aslim Singh

Representatives from GuySuCo recently reached out to the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), to seek assistance from the union to help pay their workers who hadn’t been paid as yet for the month of September.
According to the Assistant General Secretary of GAWU, Mr. Aslim Singh, GuySuCo was only capable of paying their cane cutters. The monthly workers who are being paid every last Friday in each month are not being paid as yet.
Singh said that GuySuCo explained its financial problems to its workers who were supposed to be paid on Friday. He added that the workers will be paid before the end of the coming week.
A letter titled, “The Unfair Treatment to Staff at GuySuCo” stated that it is unacceptable for all the workers of GuySuCo to not receive their salaries on time since they give their all to the company and give up countless hours.
The letter acknowledged that salaries are of great importance to someone who is working and has a family to provide for, “mortgages have to be paid. Children going to school will need stuff that we as parents should be able to provide those necessities to our families.”
The letter also highlighted that the workers of GuySuCo believed that there will be sufficient funds to run the remaining estates and it is very unusual for the company to be having financial difficulties since it closed four of the sugar estates around the country and no longer has such a large number of employees to pay. (Renay Sambach)

Discover more from Kaieteur News

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Latest News