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Sacked GPL employees ordered reinstated

Jul 22, 2008 News

Nine employees of the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL), who were dismissed for alleged wrongdoing, have been ordered re-instated by an arbitrator.
Some of the staffers were sent home as far back as 2005.
According to the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE), on Friday, the one-man Arbitration Tribunal appointed to settle the dispute between GPL and the union announced his decision.
Gladstone Cadogan, Deonarine Ramroop, Otis Jamieson, Quacy La Rose, Rawle Benjamin, Brian Seecharran, Renville Mc Bean, Quinsie Huntley and Leon Andrews were all dismissed by GPL. The matter was reported to NAACIE, who took it to arbitration.
  Both parties agreed to the lone arbitrator, Francis Carryl, to present the award based on the findings.
“The reinstatement of the employees means that they are to return to work and be paid as if they had never left. They are to be paid all wages, and shall be entitled to leave, or payment in lieu of leave, and leave passage when applicable,” NAACIE said.
However, all emoluments calculated shall not attract any interest and are to be reduced by one-third, representing a sum assessed to have been earned elsewhere during the period of wrongful dismissal.
GPL was represented by its Human Resources Director and its legal counsel, while the workers were represented by attorney-at-law Nikil Ramkarran and NAACIE General Secretary Kenneth Joseph.
Cadogan, of New Amsterdam Transmission and Distribution Station, was dismissed in September 2005 for malpractice with fraudulent intent.
Ramroop, of Versailles Power Station, was sent home in October 2005 for stealing the company’s property.
Jamieson, La Rose, Benjamin, Seecharran, McBean, Huntley and Leon Andrews, all of the Lamaha Street Workshop, were dismissed in March 2006 for malpractice with fraudulent intent.

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