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The Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU) Friday described as \u2018unfortunate\u201d the decision by the US-owned Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM) to send home more than 100 employees following the devastation caused by the passage of Hurricane Maria last September.<\/p>

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RUSM, which was founded in 1978, has its main campus located in Portsmouth, north of here with separate administrative bases in Iselin, New Jersey and Miramar, Florida in the United States. It is owned by Adtalem Global Education Inc., formerly DeVry Education Group.<\/p>\n

\"Ross<\/a>The university has started the process of laying off at least 150 employees with hundreds of its students and staff being relocated temporarily to the United States.<\/p>

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DPSU general secretary, Thomas Letang, said the union met with the employees and a redundancy package had been negotiated.<\/p>

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\u201cSince we moved to Ross University there are a lot of benefits we were able to get for the members, things like pension and gratuity\u2026which will form part of the package that they will be receiving.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have indicated to Ross University that as soon as they will resume operations in Dominica we would be happy if they would give priority to the employees who were displaced by that decision and we are working on that,\u201d Letang said, adding that the workers have also raised other concerns.<\/p>

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Letang said that the union intends to write to the Dominica government regarding the situation at the university.<\/p>\n

Last month, RUSM wrote to staff informing them of the situation following the hurricane that caused widespread damage in Dominica on September 18.<\/p>

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\u201cWe will no longer be able to continue to employ our entire Dominican Campus as we have since Hurricane Maria,\u201d RUSM Dean Dr. William .F. Owen Jr. wrote promising that the university would maintain what he described as a \u201ccore staff\u201d in Dominica.<\/p>

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