The Employers’ Consultative Association of Trinidad and Tobago (ECA) has openly condemned the call for next Monday and Tuesday for workers to ’stay at home’.
The call came from The People’s Democracy, which is a newly-formed joint body comprising several local trade unions and non-governmental organisations.
The ECA has said,’While we understand the need to urgently address some of the social issues underlying the call for a shutdown, we do not believe that the two-day shutdown is the answer.’
The umbrella organisation, which usually speaks as a collective voice on employer-related issues, is now telling employers they should resist any demand or threat made by workers or their representatives for time off with pay on the proposed ’stay-at-home’ days, November 23 and 24.
The ECA, which is now chaired by Ruben McSween, has said employers should know they are not obliged to pay workers ’for time not spent in the performance of their jobs’.
