The issue of compromised gratuity payments to contracted workers of the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) has sparked yet another protest, and a call to have the decades-old issue settled once and for all.
This issue of how gratuity is paid to workers of the LHC had its genesis in 1996 when the main health facility in the town was unbundled from the management of the bauxite company.
Since then workers have staged endless protests, picketing exercises and sit-ins calling on the Ministry of Health and other responsible authorities to revisit some clauses enshrined in the conditions of their gratuity benefits.
“Gratuity is in lieu of pension and whether you go on sick leave, maternity leave