Private sector body supports stricter adherence to labour laws

Vishnu Doerga

Private sector entities that flout the country’s labour laws should not be eligible to tender for state contracts, Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection Simona Broomes had declared in her Tuesday August 18 budget presentation in the National Assembly.

And while Broomes has won backing from two senior private sector officials for her insistence that the business community comply with labour regulations, including those that address safety and health, pay and other conditions of work,