Plans for a meeting between Junior Minister of Social Protection Simona Broomes and business owners are, she told Stabroek Business earlier this week, “part of the ministry’s wider strategy to develop a workable formula for a better labour relations environment,” between business owners and their employees and between business owners and the Ministry of Social Protection.
Stabroek Business understands that the planned meeting with several of the country’s high-profile business owners will be preceded by a meeting with officials of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), which forum will discuss both the envisaged agenda for the meeting as well, as the anticipated attendees. Broomes said that while she would be seeking “guidance and recommendations” from the PSC and the GCCI regarding both the agenda for the meeting with the business owners, the ministry also has its own ideas about the issues that need to be discussed at the forum as well as the business owner group likely to be present at the forum.
In recent months, the former head of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation has had numerous high-profile encounters with private sector workplaces and most of these have arisen out of the need to settle employer/employee differences relating mostly to pay, conditions of work and