POINTE XPRESS: OUR mandates do not call for the termination of anyone,” Prime Minister Gaston Browne declared as he poured scorn on UPP leader Harold Lovell’s election-style promise to reinstate and compensate all who supposedly lost their jobs as a result of Government’s mandatory vaccination policy for public sector workers – should his (Lovell’s) party regain office.
Calling the vaccine mandate “an unjust policy”, Lovell said a future UPP administration would put in place the legal framework for public servants to claim and be compensated for wrongful dismissal, in addition to all who were still eligible being allowed to return to work if they had been forced to stay home as a consequence of refusing to get vaccinated.
“The public sector has not terminated a single worker to date,” PM Browne stressed. “All we have said is that we have an obligation to keep the work environment safe, and on that basis, individuals have to be vaccinated in order to enter the work premises. Very simple. There is no law, there is no regulation that calls for the dismissal of public sector workers.”
Elaborating on what obtains in the private sector, the Prime Minister stated: “Even though we’re saying that private sector workers are also mandated to get vaccinated in order to show that there is a safe work space or to keep the work spaces safe, then clearly the issue of dismissal again does not arise.”
The head of government believes this is another instance of Lovell and his UPP “seeking to encourage people to stay unvaccinated and perhaps to stay unemployed for a period of 16 months – the next elections are constitutionally due in March of 2023, so maybe 17 months – or, if you add the additional three months that ordinarily a government could get depending on the prevailing circumstances, that’s 20 months.
“He is urging them to remain unemployed up to a period of about 20 months; and he is giving them the assurance that if they take that type of irresponsible position … they will be rewarded by a UPP administration … Isn’t that amazing, that level of deceit?”
The Prime Minister denounced this stance by Lovell and the UPP as “irresponsible and opportunistic behavior in which he and his colleagues, up to now, cannot bring themselves to encourage people to get vaccinated”.
He said the UPP and its leader were instead “trying to entrench and reward irresponsible behaviors …”
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“Elaborating on what obtains in the private sector, the Prime Minister stated: “Even though we’re saying that private sector workers are also mandated to get vaccinated in order to show that there is a safe work space or to keep the work spaces safe, THEN CLEARLY THE ISSUE OF DISMISSAL AGAIN DOES NOT ARISE.”
Really Gaston? Are you really this dumb?
Anderson Carty was on one of your Saturday programs a few weeks ago.
Gaston Browne, Collin Oneal, Shelton Daniel, Everton Barnes – call Anderson Carty and ask him and you all will discover (even though I know you all very well know) you all are talking b**ls**t.
Get registered my people.
Let us rid ourselves of this present Labour Party Administration at the next general elections.
Boss a surprise announcement coming shortly that will make you wet yourself. Even then we all know you will continue to emit from your mouth what should come via your anus
Of course your political god will try to clean up his mess but the damage is done.
We will never forget who sent us home to starve.
I applaud Lovell in this move. He has gain massive points in my book.
I applaud him for recognizing that the rights & benefits of workers who were inhumanely fired and others whose salary/wage was inhumanely withheld, should and will be paid.
What the hell I’m reading a safe working environment ? When both vaccinated and unvaccinated equally can get and transmit Covid. This why vaccinated folks are so hawkish they listen to the double talk combined with too much Red cool aid and there’s the recipe for misinformation .
THERE’S NO LAW OR REGULATION THAT CALLS FOR THE DISMISSAL OF WORKERS ?
SO WHAT IS STAY HOME AND NOT ALLOWED TO WORK AND FEED YOUR FAMILY IS ? YEAH OK , AND MY MOTHER IS CINDERELLA ! THIS IS VERY CLEAR THAT THIS GUY YOU ADMIRERS HAS A “RIDE AND DIE MENTALITY WITH HIM AND DOESN’T THINK HIGHLY OF SOME OF YOU. HE THINKS YOU DON’T FOLLOW AND UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES, KNOWLEDGEABLE AND SMART. WHAT YOU SEE AND HEAR IS NOT WHAT YOU REALLY SEE AND HEAR.
He did not say anything about a safe environment, they basically said if you work you need to get vaccinated or you can’t work. If this was about safety of the workplace they would have allowed for regular testing or any other method of contributing to workplace safety. An unjust law is still a law. It is up to the courts to decide if they are called upon to do so.
These politicians are so skilled at finding what they want to find. Just like the idiot Kamala Harris that can find a link between trees and racism but can’t see that their vaccine mandates are causing people to lose their jobs.
Common on man you can’t be that stupid and be a competent leader of this country. Your mandate caused me to lose 60% of my staff. Over 5 employees, remember Gaston. Well I have well over 5 employees, and 60 % said hell no. Some with over 5 yrs on the job. And now I can’t find Vax people to replace them. You don’t think mandate cost
jobs, call me and I will give you their names. And maybe you can give me the names of skilled workers who are vaxed to replace themm
You sound lie lie and mekkup mekkup. Tap purge u kanshance.
Give him a few months, you’ll see he executed and table that same plan. Allll your best ideas came from Lovell, that’s why you listen to him so much
HAROLD 1735 IS WAITING FOR YOU. Let Us see how the HIGH COURT CASE WORK OUT.
Harold should resign. A Political Leader cannot run for Political office when there is a CRIMINAL against Him.
You know is only dem dat neck deep in corruption could condone how gaston dem run dis country. Also if you care nothing about how dem man creating every opportunity imaginable fu elevate foreign money people above de rest us den you can can’t even see as far as you eye lash.
dem labour party people only care bout demself. Time fu dem go.
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