Voters entitled time off to vote
Published:Thursday | November 21, 2024 | 4:22 PM
The Electoral Commission of Jamaica is reminding employers that voters are entitled to time off to vote in tomorrow's by-elections.
Under the Representation of the People Regulations, every employer shall permit each of his employees to be absent from his work on polling day for three hours in addition to the normal meal hour. However, this shall not apply to any employee whose work on polling day commences at or after 10.00 a.m. or concludes before or at 2.00 p.m.
Electors are being reminded to take their Voter ID card to the polling station. The EOJ is appealing to electors who have not yet collected their Voter ID card to visit their EOJ constituency office to do so ahead of the by-elections.
Electors may vote without their voter ID card, but the process will be faster if they have it.
Nine candidates will be contesting in by-elections in the constituencies of Trelawny Southern and St Andrew North Western, and the electoral divisions of Morant Bay in St Thomas Eastern and Aenon Town in Clarendon Northern.
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