Labour Department Hosts Workshop on National OSH Profile
The Labour Department hosted a one day consultation workshop last week Thursday 28th June, 2018 at the NIS Conference Room to review the draft Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Profile for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Labour Department Hosts University Student Interns
Two female German students from the University of Applied Studies of the Federal Employment Agency in Schwerin, Germany and a Vincentian Student from the University of the West Indies are currently doing their internship programmes with the Labour Department.
St. Vincent Government Reviews Minimum Wages
Cabinet has, on the 11 February, 2015 appointed Wages Councils to undertake a review of the minimum wages regulations. The Councils were launched at an official ceremony on Thursday 31 March, 2016 at the Peace Memorial Hall in Kingstown.
Delivering the keynote address, Minister of Labour, Hon. Camillo Gonsalves noted that some employers, for example, some employers of agricultural workers are already paying wages that are above the current minimum. “Whether this wages council will fix the minimum wages more reflective of the going market rate, or whether they would establish a new floor that employers would have to go beyond, is a matter that I am sure you would discuss robustly,” Gonsalves said.
He noted further that, “at the most basic level, minimum wage increase has the potential to stimulate the economy and increase demand by putting money into the pockets of low-income consumers who immediately spend it at local businesses.”