THE Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday issued a statement saying that the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) yesterday instructed all its local offices to honour all legitimate claims for benefits submitted by sugar workers. The statement comes in the wake of a report in the Sunday, January 25, 2015 edition of the Kaieteur News, saying that sugar workers’ benefits could be “endangered” because of the “non-remittance of NIS payments”.
According to GuySuCo, it met last Friday with NIS’ Deputy General Manager (Operations), and submitted a payment schedule for all outstanding contributions. It says that as a result of this commitment to honour the schedule for outstanding payments and remittance for current, NIS decided yesterday to honour all workers’ claims.
GuySuCo further said in its statement, “The Corporation wishes to place on record that not only is it the largest contributor to NIS, but it has sustained a close working relationship with NIS, and at no time has any employee’s legitimate claim for benefits endangered or jeopardised as a result of any late remittance of either employee or employer’s contribution.”