Workers at Jumby Bay Resort Fired After Reporting Sick

1. Hope they get some nice money out of that wicked place!!!

   Modern day slavery at its finest!

2. Workers should have been advised to seek medical attention or better yet, sent for medical evaluation to determine the cause of the stomach pain.

3. Did they just walk off the job, or permission was given for them to leave? These top class resorts are very strict, so any attendance let down that may jeopardize the quality service which is expected by their guests, will be hard to overlooked and we are talking six at one time.This is a job for the Union.

4. Excellent… Without a medical letter the individuals redundancies shouldnstand

5. It is time that hotels and business places in Antigua to include government workers the way they reporting sick at their workplace. Reporting sick and Sickleave has become a new occupation in Antigua and Barbuda which causing a problem for those who are genuinely sick. If a supervisor speak too hard to a worker thst worker reporting sick. If there is a problem at the workplace, before seeking professional advice they reporting sick, and if the government don’t amend certain things in the Labour code, workers at hotels will cripple the tourist industry. I am not referring my comments to the Jumby Bay workers alone. Reporting sick at the workplace in Antigua has become a plague. People will report sick at their workplace just to go to carnival. When big events come up like the one nation concert, workers who are not off duty going to report sick just to attend the show and those who are genuinely sick are looked upon as the customary thing of reporting sick. In my opinion, that sick reporting and leaving the job was a planned thing for industrial action.

6. This could NEVER happen under a LABOUR government run by V C BIRD. He would have called the 6 individuals and told them to report for duty. Then he would speak to Jumby Bay management and let them know take back the workers or you will be on the next flight out of Antigua after your work permit is revoked. SIMPLE this is not a matter for the Union……

7. Jumby bay is an ISLAND resort. They should at all times have medical personnel on staff. Was the medical crew consulted after the sick reports. Is that a policy of the resort.
   Am not sure if workers there normally eats at the resort, but if not, hard to comprehend how that many persons can be sick from different pots.

8. This is why I have absolutely nothing to do with the hotel sector. Thankfully, I’ve steered my sons well clear of this unstable area of employment.

   And as expected the hotel lobbyists made sure that when they put their proposals to this ABLP government, they made sure that workers long-term rights and protections were discarded.

   The layperson will place all the blame on the hotels, but the government and to some extent the unions -providing the ABLP were upfront with them in their negotiations with the hotelier’s, which I very much doubt.

   Getting rid of workers in this manner is reprehensible. One of the reasons Gaston Browne dislikes unions, snd wants to erode them of their powers.

9. Are there pro bono lawyers in Antigua? If they were genuinely sick they should fight for their rights. Perhaps they all ate the same bad food at the resort or something. If they were trying to do some sort of industrial action that would have been a poor way to go about it. But, why would they have to resort to all of that if they had management that was open to listening to and addressing staff concerns? If they had to do all of that then something must be wrong with the management system. Also, management should have backup workers if absences due to sickness are such a big deal for them. Often management tries to cut costs by having the fewest possible number of workers with each worker overworked and then is shocked when things come to a standstill whilst that worker is ill. Finally, people in this country need to get off the backs of sick employees and let people recover in peace. Stop obsessing about having people prove that they are deathly ill on every single day of their sick leave. This is not slavery. Live and let live with human compassion.

10. I have been reading a lot of history lately as well as remembering what was taught back when I was a high school student. I was thought as a child that back in the days of slavery one third of slaves would die in the ship on the way over. Another third during the first year of slavery and the final third by the the third year. That’s how brutal the conditions and workload was. When slaves got sick and couldn’t make quota, they beaten for not keeping up with the work. How inhumane. Surprisingly, apart from that slavery episode, humans have often been brutal towards one another with regards to work. Even when poor white and other indentured workers were first encouraged to come to work in certain colonies in America, they would only live for 5 measly years after arriving because the conditions were so harsh. Working too hard and living in bad conditions leads to quick death. Back in the days when persons worked in factories in the U.S., there were all sorts of injuries, child workers, children and adults losing body parts, long working hours etc. just to produce fashionable clothes for wealthy people. People with a conscience fought against such injustices and developed labour laws allowing people reasonable hours, workplace protections, sick days and leave options, fair wages so they could afford decent shelter, healthy food and the like. These days employers sometimes forget why these provisions were put in place – to treat workers like human beings with full lives not just cogs in a machine to make money for them. Firing people for getting ill is highly problematic and unjust. Workers should never work themselves to death because they are afraid of inhumane employers. You can always get another job but you only have one life to live. Take care of your health and hopefully live to fight for your rights another day if you have to. Remember all the people who only lived for 3 and 5 years because of oppressive working conditions and do not revert to those archaic systems of the past.

11. This make me feel sick in me stomoch
    Only when man drap dung dem garn kno
    Ppl cope different!
    Take vaxx: and me get sick, but u dont
    Dem lucky these staff do not have ill intent cause one call to the health ppl, jumpybay couda lock down
    6 people sick suddenly on an island with ppl coming from all bout d globe could mean one thing – EBOLA

    BTW : covid is bac & bac with a bad twist

    God doesnt sleep

12. Anywhere that a black people can’t buy a home I want no part of … Question of the DAY!! NAME one place on this darn Earth that a white person can’t buy a home and live ? Imagine Some places in the U.S they don’t even allow black folks to buy homes…YOU”ll ever heard of Willie lynch .. let’s start of movement let’s all walk off of there plantation. Wising up!!!

13. Anywhere that blacks can’t buy a home I want no part of … Question of the DAY!! NAME one place on this darn Earth that a white person can’t buy a home and live ? Imagine Some places in the U.S they don’t even allow black folks to buy homes…YOU”ll ever heard of Willie lynch .. let’s start of movement let’s all walk off of there plantation. Wising up!!!

14. Anywhere that blacks can’t buy a home I want no part of … Question of the DAY!! NAME one place on this darn Earth that a white person can’t buy a home and live ? Imagine Some places in the U.S they don’t even allow black folks to buy homes…YOU”ll ever heard of Willie lynch .. let’s start a movement let’s all walk off of there plantation. Wising up!!!

15. Fire the workers willy nilly, it’s a state withing a state, both jumby bay and mill reef finance the government and political parties to secure their interest of having a Jim crow enclave, no prime minister or anybody can do a thing about it because they all accept to monies from jumby bay and mill reef and now PLH, if the prime minister ever speak, know that he already have a private conversation with these wealthy people butler, and then come to the public with performative politics, none of the two political party can interfere in these entities white privilege, or else their countries military will step in.

16. @ Worked to death …👏🏾

17. They have all thse expats coming to Antigua making big money getting all sorts of benefits. Im yet to see a black general manager in a hotel this should be an eye opener to all Antiguans. This is what Gaston should be looking into.. you mean no local talent has the capacity ro manage a hotel?

18. @Wake up!! Latin people are by majority whites, and most of them can’t buy a house and have a lower salary than Antiguans.. Ohh let me remind you that the country that have most black millionaires are USA. Also why black people in Africa can’t buy a house? Why million and million of chineses can’t buy a house? Why millions of Russians can’t buy a house? Did you travel to Europe? a very high % of population can’t buy a house neither.. So Why you are too desperate to prove that Black People are the only one that can’t afford to buy a house? USA only? Only in USA a Black Person have the chance to become President, or Major, or Millionaire. Just tell me in which country have more Wealthy Black People than USA?

19. Hotels often operate deceptively when it comes to wages, and many employees end up feeling exploited. Staff frequently don’t receive proper overtime pay, and the service charge distribution is rarely transparent or accurate. On top of that, managers who work twice as hard are no longer eligible for service charge, despite carrying major responsibilities.

    It feels like hotels are constantly looking for ways to cut labour costs by targeting employees’ pockets, yet they still expect staff to give 100% every day. This creates a work environment that is incredibly demotivating and unfair.

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