Fifteen percent increase for URP and CEPEP workers? I thought URP had been replaced by CEPEP some years back but I had it all wrong. URP hasn’t closed at all. It has an up to date website that gives details about its 16 units and its 4-6 week programmes that people can sign up for […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on September 22 2019. Paradox is the spice of life, and few aspects of life are more paradoxical or spicy than Industrial Relations. There is a fundamental difference between Law and Industrial Relations which many lawyers fail to appreciate. As Sir Isaac Hyatali, our first […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on August 9th 2019. When an employer is contemplating disciplining an employee, of whatever status in the organization, from captain to cook, to deal with an internal charge of theft or fraud, he is not required to have available, as he would in a court of […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on March 27th 2019. Are you “between jobs” as they say? Retrenched? Recently retired and looking for a way to supplement your pension? Are you finding it difficult to get what you are looking for? If so, have you stopped to consider that you may be […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on March 2nd 2019. I am willing to bet good money that the high economic cost to a country of one of the most common factors that we read about every day and hear neighbours whisper about it in shocked tones in the grocery stores, bars and […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on January 24th 2019. Have you met Butch Stewart? Would you describe him as a WIMP? When he was a child did he mis-learn the nursery rhyme as: “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will scare me more?” So why did they call him […]
This article was published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on January 18th 2019 The following paragraphs appeared in the Trinidad Express on March 30, 1984. It was before the ME TOO# movement which exploded two years ago worldwide. Can you spot what has changed in T&T since? Sexual harassment on the job is rapidly becoming a topic for […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on October 30th 2018. There is a genuine and concerted worry on the part of members of the OWTU about what will happen to their union protection if and when they are selected to be among the lucky ones, the ones chosen for their skills, attitudes and productivity […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on August 18th 2018. Do you remember the story of the goose that laid the golden eggs? Apparently , it was a big goose, one of those from Away , and each egg it laid was made of 24 carat gold , and could support the entire farm […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on July 11th 2018. It does not need explaining to any one, employer or employed, that we are experiencing a difficult socio-economic situation in Trinidad & Tobago. The Trade Union Movement, self-represented by Ancil Roget blames this on the government’s mismanagement of the economy, financiers blame it on the international […]
