THE Ministry of Labour, the President, all political parties and competent authorities must immediately rectify the very insensitive situation with regard to outstanding payments to workers who worked very hard everyday including Saturdays and Sundays in the recently concluded Claims and Objections exercise conducted by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).
These employees include: electoral registrars, assistant electoral registrars, clerks, clerical assistants and political scrutineers. These persons have been anxiously looking forward to their remuneration.
GECOM’s insensitivity is so glaring as it has failed to extend common courtesy and decency by not even informing these suffering people, a date when they are to be paid.
I know many of these workers of whom I also am one, who had budgeted to spend their hard earned cash on very urgent and pressing expenses: light bills, mortgage, installments to prevent foreclosure, etc.
There is a disappointing silence, especially from the political parties whose scrutineers are seriously affected.