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Labour Day March moving West along Cayon Street in Basseterre on Monday |
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, MAY 2ND 2006 - The governing St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party Administration goes to the Federal National Assembly in September with draft Pensions legislation, which will provide pension and gratuity for non-established employees in the public service.
This was disclosed Monday by St. Kitts and Nevis' Prime Minister, Hon. Dr.
Denzil L. Douglas in a statement at the end of the Labour Day March.
He said that his Government last week received the Actuarial Report from an expert who has been advising on how to proceed in breaking down the barriers and the distinction between the established worker and the non-established worker.
"So many of you work harder than those who have their qualifications and their degrees. So many of you not only in the government departments, but also in other public corporations, work hard and when you would have worked for 40 and 50 years, there is nothing for you to go home with. Labour promise you that that will come to an end. Labour promises you that there will be no distinction between the established worker and the no-established worker," said Prime Minister Douglas.
Dr. Douglas said the draft legislation goes to the National Assembly in September and is expected to be debated and passed into law by November with a view to implementing it by 1st January 2007.
"We will put it into law that no established worker will go home on retirement without his gratuity and pension," said the St. Kitts and Nevis leader to the wild cheers of the large number of workers at the Patsy Allers Recreation Ground.
Dr. Douglas said his caring St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Government "listens to the country and has its ears to the ground."
