Fifty-one former employees of Pritipaul Singh Investment Inc. are demanding that the owner of the company keeps his promise to pay them their severance after he reportedly suggested they leave over an attempt to unionise and they have also accused the Ministry of Labour of dragging its feet on the case.
Stabroek News spoke with one of the employees, Nicola Smith, who noted that on September 20th, the owner of the company, Pritipaul Singh, had called a meeting with the workers where he notified them that he heard rumors that they were planning to establish a workers’ union and advised that he did not want any such body to be formed at his company and told those in favour of unionising to leave.