Over the past five months, the Labour Department of the Ministry of Social Protection has closed some 416 cases brought against employers and over $18 million has been paid to aggrieved workers, according to Junior Minister Simona Broomes.
“This is not anything where we are just harassing anybody. The approach here is that we have the law and we have to stand by it. I am very supportive of staff calling in employers and once they come in we sit down, we go through, they comply, they pay and that is how we have been able to have all these payments,” Broomes told Stabroek News in a recent interview.
Broomes said when she took over the department she found a backlog of