Uncertainty regarding when Barbados public sector workers will be sent home

According to a report in the Barbados Nation newspaper, Friday's deadline for the sending home of more than three thousand sector workers might be delayed again.

That’s reportedly the feeling of Dennis Clarke, General Secretary of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW), Dennis Clarke, who told the newspaper that up to late Wednesday the union had not  received from Government the list of names of workers to be placed on the breadline.

“My understanding is that the Civil Service had to send it (list) to the Personnel Administration Department and up to yesterday (Tuesday) evening they were still fine-tuning it. It is not so straightforward a thing, as I have been saying to the public,” Clarke told the DAILY NATION.

“They (Government) have to fine-tune it properly, if not they are going to run into trouble,” he added, while noting that the union expected to receive the list on Thursday or Friday. 

“From where I sit and awaiting on this list, I don’t see they (Government) would be ready by Friday,” he concluded.