Seeking declaration that 2004 Mem. of Agreement is binding
THE Guyana Agriculural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has filed a writ of summons in the Supreme Court Registry calling on the Guyana Sugar Corporation Incorporated and Errol Hanoman to find that the 2004 Memorandum of Agreement is binding in law.
The union represented by Mr. Ashton Chase, S.C. is seeking a declaration that in as much as the Severance  Pay Claims provision in the aforesaid agreement is predicated or premised on Section 12 of the Termination of Employment and Severance Pay Act No 19 of 1997 the particulars of redundancy therein as it relates to the employees of the firstnamed Defendants are applicable to them.
A declaration that the approximately 400  workers and employees of the Defendant Corporation formerly of Diamond Estate on the East Bank of Demerara in the County of Demerara were ‘rendered redundant’ in March 2010 by the closure of termination of operations and functioning of Plantation of Plantation Diamond (Diamond Estate)
An order directing the first-named Defendants to pay to their aforesaid employees severance pay promptly in accordance with the Agreement between the Plaintiffs and the said Defendants of October, 2004.
A mandatory Order directing the first-named Defendants to make provision to honour their obligation as to severance pay under the aforesaid Agreement to the employees referred to them.
Damages in excess of $100,000,00 against the second-named Defendant for defaming the Plaintiffs in the  County of Demerara in February/March 2010 as to their representation on behalf of their aforesaid members who are entitled to severance payments from their employers.
An injunction restraining the second-named Defendant from repeating his libelous statements of and concerning the Plaintiffs touching the aforesaid.